7. Earls Orchard Playing fields-Richmond Town fc

Ground: Earls Orchard Playing fields
League: Teeside football league division 1
Admission: free
Score: Richmond Town 6-1 Darlington Grammar School Railway Athletic.
Programme: no
Attendance: 40
Capacity: 650
Seated: 0
Covered: 0
Town/City: Richmond
Opposition: Darlington Grammar School Railway Athletic
Date: 27.3.10
Club shop: no
Floodlights: no
Step: 12

Richmond Town play in the Teeside football league.
They are from North Yorkshire and are just south of Darlington.
Obviously you’d expect it at this level of football but the pitch has so many lumps and bumps in it and one of the goals has to have the back of it on top of a pile of mud otherwise it would slip down the hilly bit.
I took the 159 bus to get to this match and walked from Richmond Market place.
I walked in through the gate but no one asked for an admission so I knew it was free admission.
The pitch is fully railed and has a black coat of paint on the metal rails. But that’s it at the ground really, just a pitch with a rail going round it. There are some changing rooms that you pass on the way in but there is no clubhouse and these only have a few pictures from the past mounted inside.

I’m not entirely certain whether it’s possible to get promoted from the Teeside league to the Wearside league.
On the Wikipedia English football structure it says you can but on the pyramid structure website it says you can’t. However Scarborough Town went from the Teeside league division 2 to the Wearside league last season so I guess anything’s possible.

Darlington Grammar School were wearing Darlington shirts for their match while Richmond Town were in blue. They completely thrashed the bottom club by 6 goals to 1.

Another ground that I’ve ticked off that I’ll hopefully never have to visit again because of how uninteresting it is. Nice view of the castle though.

Richmond Town matchday pictures