Moss Lane is a multi-purpose stadium in Altrincham, England. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Altrincham and Manchester United Reserves. It is also used for cup final matches in the Timpeley and District Amateur Football League. The stadium comprises two all-seater stands on one side with a combined capacity of 1323 spectators and terraces on the other three sides, giving a total capacity of 6,085.
Chorley Borough RLFC relocated to Moss Lane for the 1989–90 season and renamed themselves Trafford Borough RLFC. Trafford Borough played at Moss Lane for three seasons before relocating to Blackpool as Blackpool Gladiators RLFC for the 1992–93 season.
Famous quotes containing the words moss and/or lane:
“His life itself passes deeper in nature than the studies of the naturalist penetrate; himself a subject for the naturalist. The latter raises the moss and bark gently with his knife in search of insects; the former lays open logs to their core with his axe, and moss and bark fly far and wide. He gets his living by barking trees. Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
Far off a precise whistle is escheat
To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)