The Dripping Pan
The club have always played their home matches at the Dripping Pan (often just called The Pan). The ground itself is known to have been used for football matches prior to the formation of the current club, and has been used by the local people for recreation since time immemorial. The ground is called "The Dripping Pan", because the site was where monks from the local priory used to dry water from the nearby river to make salt. This also accounted for the pitch being sunk below ground level and being surrounded by grass banks on all sides.
The Dripping Pan was chosen as one of the 5 top non-league away days by the football blog The Ball is Round in September 2010.
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Famous quotes containing the words dripping and/or pan:
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The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)