# List of Shropshire County Cricket Club grounds

Shropshire County Cricket Club was established on 28 June 1956. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1957 and played List A cricket from 1974 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1957 was against Staffordshire at The Grove Ground, Market Drayton, while their first List A match came 17 years later against Essex in the 1974 Gillette Cup at Orleton Park, Wellington.
The sixteen grounds that Shropshire have used for home matches since 1955 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.

## Grounds
### List A

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Shropshire County Cricket Club when it was permitted to play List A matches. These grounds have also held Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.
| Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches |
| Name | Location | List A | List A | List A | Minor Counties Championship | Minor Counties Championship | Minor Counties Championship | MCCA Trophy | MCCA Trophy | MCCA Trophy | Refs |
| Orleton Park | Wellington | 29 June 1974 v Essex | 19 May 1999 v Hampshire Cricket Board | 8 | 16 August 1965 v Bedfordshire | 10 June 2001 v Berkshire | 36 | 22 May 1994 v Bedfordshire | 19 June 2011 v Cambridgeshire | 5 |
| St George's Cricket Ground | Telford | 4 July 1984 v Yorkshire | 21 June 2000 v Somerset | 7 | 17 July 1957 v Derbyshire Second XI | 4 July 1999 v Devon | 20 | 9 June 1996 v Berkshire | 19 July 2001 v Devon | 3 |
| London Road | Shrewsbury | 1 May 2001 v Devon | 29 May 2002 v Gloucestershire | 2 | 4 July 1957 v Nottinghamshire Second XI | 21 July 2013 v Cornwall | 41 | 1 May 1995 v Dorset | 4 May 2014 v Lincolnshire | 12 |
| Priorslee Road | Shifnal | 16 May 2000 v Surrey Cricket Board | 13 September 2001 v Oxfordshire | 3 | 10 June 1987 v Cornwall | 22 June 2014 v Herefordshire | 15 | 17 May 1998 v Lancashire Cricket Board | 16 June 2013 v Wales Minor Counties | 5 |
| Morda Road | Oswestry | only match: 28 August 2003 v Northumberland | | 1 | 16 July 1964 v Somerset Second XI | 5 August 2012 v Wales Minor Counties | 20 | 28 May 2000 v Worcestershire Cricket Board | 18 May 2014 v Cheshire | 9 |
| Heath Road | Whitchurch | only match: 4 May 2005 v Hampshire | | 1 | 23 July 2000 v Herefordshire | 6 June 2016 v Dorset | 14 | only match: 20 June 1999 v Cumberland | | 1 |

### Minor Counties

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Shropshire County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.
| Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches |
| Name | Location | Minor Counties Championship | Minor Counties Championship | Minor Counties Championship | MCCA Trophy | MCCA Trophy | MCCA Trophy | Refs |
| Grove Ground | Market Drayton | 29 May 1957 v Staffordshire | 21 August 1976 v Dorset | 14 | – | – | 0 |
| Audley Avenue | Newport | 11 July 1957 v Warwickshire Second XI | 5 July 1998 v Wales Minor Counties | 14 | 3 June 1984 v Berkshire | 17 June 1984 v Northumberland | 2 |
| High Town | Bridgnorth | 30 July 1958 v Drbyshire Second XI | 16 July 2014 v Oxfordshire | 49 | 19 May 1985 v Oxfordshire | 20 May 1990 v Staffordshire | 3 |
| Perkins Cricket Club Ground | Shrewsbury | 24 August 1959 v Nottinghamshire Second XI | 5 July 1965 v Somerset Second XI | 7 | 5 June 1988 v Cheshire | 17 May 1992 v Herefordshire | 4 |
| Ellesmere College Ground | Ellesmere | 14 June 1967 v Lincolnshire | 12 June 1994 v Wiltshire | 4 | – | – | 0 |
| The Avenue | Uppington | 2 June 1971 v Cambridgeshire | 3 June 1975 v Somerset Second XI | 3 | only match: 8 June 2003 v Cumberland | | 1 |
| The Burway | Ludlow | 27 August 1973 v Devon | 19 August 1979 v Somerset Second XI | 6 | – | – | 0 |
| Sir John Moore Barracks Ground | Shrewsbury | only match: 21 August 1974 v Staffordshire | | 1 | – | – | 0 |
| Wrekin College Ground | Wellington | – | – | 0 | only match: 24 May 1998 v Cheshire | | 1 |
| The Kynaston Ground | Wem | – | – | 0 | 3 June 2001 v Wales Minor Counties | 17 May 2009 v Cheshire | 3 |