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Vale Park — Port Vale
Vale Park is a proper football ground in the heart of Burslem — unfussy, proud, and worth every mile of the trip from wherever you're coming from.
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Bet365 Stadium — Stoke City
A 30,000-capacity ground on the edge of the Potteries that replaced the Victoria Ground in 1997. Functional, exposed, and properly loud when Stoke are up for it.
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Sixfields Stadium — Northampton Town
Sixfields divides opinion, but Northampton Town's out-of-town ground has a rawness and a lower-league intensity that rewards the travelling groundhopper.
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Oakwell — Barnsley FC
Oakwell is a proper football ground in a proper football town — compact, loud when it needs to be, and carrying over a century of South Yorkshire grit.
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Field Mill — Mansfield Town
Field Mill is one of the oldest grounds in football. Mansfield's compact, characterful home rewards the groundhopper willing to make the trip into Nottinghamshire.
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Montgomery Waters Meadow — Shrewsbury Town
A modern bowl on the edge of town that splits opinion, but Shrewsbury Town make it their own. Worth the trip to Salop if you love lower-league football done properly.
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Priestfield Stadium — Gillingham FC
A proper lower-league ground in the heart of Medway, Priestfield has been hosting Gills fans since 1893 and still has the feel of a club that earns everything the hard way.
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Kenilworth Road — Luton Town
Cramped, eccentric, and utterly unrepeatable: Kenilworth Road is the kind of English ground that reminds you why groundhopping exists in the first place.
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Toughsheet Community Stadium — Bolton Wanderers
Bolton's out-of-town ground has worn more names than most clubs have had managers, but beneath the sponsorship churn sits a proper Football League ground worth the trip.
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Home Park — Plymouth Argyle
A proper football ground on the far western edge of English football, where the sea air rolls in and 12,000 Devonians make Home Park feel like the centre of the world.