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I discovered this abandoned football pitch adjacent to the Leeds-Liverpool canal in Burnley when I first moved here 6 years ago. It is squeezed in to a patch of land between Thompson Park and Bank Hall Park.

Substantial enough to have a covered stand running the width of the pitch, which is fully enclosed, yet long forgotten. Nobody has played out of this ground in all the time that I've lived here. I've not found out who played here, or what became of them.

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Lee Perry
@winkley Thanks for that, that makes sense - very little on Bank Hall FC around on t’interweb.

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James McDonough
I actually have some pictures of this I am due to upload. I played football here on several occasions - as a kid and in the adults league. It was a great pitch back in the day. Real shame. Ironically found your page when looking for similar posts about the ground.

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Ian Wharton
Burnley Bank Hall FC played at that ground whilst in the West Lancs league in the late 1980s/early 1990s, before moving up to the North West Counties League. They only played one season in that league.

I watched a football game at that ground in August 2012 between Worsthorne and Burnley GSOB in the East Lancs league.

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