Ground
Abingdon Town play their home games at Culham Road, Abingdon, OX14 3HP.
The ground was originally purcased for £300. The pitch was originally rotated 90 degrees from where it is today and the work involved to rotate the pitch required Abingdon to vacate the ground for a season where they played their home games elsewhere. The first stand on the ground was erected in 1928, but was burned down after an Easter Monday fixture shortly after the Second World War, with its replacement built in 1948.
The ground at Abingdon Town holds 2,000 and the highest ever attendance was in the 1950s when 4,000 turned up to watch a memorial match. It has floodlights that are fully working, and its brightly coloured dugouts, adorned with pot plants, were featured in David Bauckham's book Dugouts.
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“As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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