The 1903 25 inch mapping of Mexborough depicts an oval running track on this site. By 1930 the present layout is represented accompanied by a small (?miners) "Welfare Ground" to the east. The layout features traditional sports ground terraces around a football pitch to the north, this area doubling in summer as part of a larger cricket ground. Bowling greens and tennis courts also provided. No legibility of the strip fields that existed in this area prior to its allocation for recreation.