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What's Boundary
Park Like?
Future
Developments
Looking
Towards The Chadderton Road Stand (photo)
What
Is It Like For Away Supporters?
Rochdale Road Stand
(photo)
Where To Drink?
Main Stand
(photo)
How
To Get There By Car & Where To Park
By Train
Admission Prices
Programme Price
Ground Layout
Local Rivals
Disabled Facilities
Fixtures 2011-2012
Record & Average Attendance
Fans Ground
Reviews
Hotel Accommodation
Boundary Park Location Map
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| What's Boundary Park
Like? |
The ground at the moment is comprised
of just three sides, as the Club demolished the
Broadway Stand on one side of the stadium. This was
in preparation for the building of a new 5,200
capacity Main Stand. However, this plan has now been
shelved for the time being and the Club are now
exploring the possibility of moving to a new
stadium.
At one end is the comparatively new Rochdale Road End,
a good sized all seater covered stand with an
excellent view of the pitch. It has windshields to
either side of it and an electric scoreboard on its
roof. Part of this stand is given to away
supporters. The other end, the Chadderton Road Stand (also known as
the 'Chaddy End'), is a medium sized all
seater covered stand. Again there are windshields to
either side, but the elderly nature of this stand is
apparent from the supporting pillars running across
the front of it. On one side there is an old two
tiered Main Stand. This used to have terracing in
front, since filled with seating. There is still some
old unused terracing on one side of this stand. Opposite is currently a building site
as a new stand is being constructed. The
ground also benefits from four large floodlight
pylons, leaving the visitor in no doubt that this is a
football ground. The Club has a mascot called 'Chaddy
The Champion Owl'.
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Future Developments
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Having
been thwarted in their efforts to gain
permission to build a new stadium, the Club are now
looking again at re-developing Boundary Park. The
first stage of this will be to build a new 5,200
capacity Main Stand on the unused side of the
ground.
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| Looking
Towards The Chadderton Road Stand |
Please
note that since this photo as taken, the Broadway
Stand on the right has been demolished.
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| What
Is It Like For Away Supporters? |
Away fans are housed in the
Rochdale Road Stand at one end of the ground. This stand is split between a larger
section on side, which houses 3,000 fans and a
smaller section on the other side which houses 1,600
supporters. It is intended with the development of
the stadium that this season the stand will be
shared between home and away fans. For most games
away supporters will be given the smaller section
(shown as Away 1 on the ground layout below), whilst
for some clubs that have a larger following then the
bigger section will be allocated (shown as Away 2 on
the ground layout below). The sections are kept
separate by a large moat like gap, which certainly makes for a
lot of banter. The facilities in this newish stand are
fairly good, as are the acoustics. If you get chance,
make sure to try one of the pies; Cottage, Steak &
Pepper, plus Cheese & Potato. Some fans reckon
that this is the best part of a visit to Boundary
Park!
This club I found to be particularly friendly. They
have an unofficial motto that 'the only club we hate
is Man United', everyone else is very welcome. The
only complaint that I had about visiting the ground
was that it always seems to be cold, with a biting
wind that goes right through you. This is due to
Oldham being on the edge of the Pennines.
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| Rochdale Road Stand |
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| Where To Drink? |
| The closest pub is the Clayton
Green, which is a Brewers Fayre and can be
found two hundred yards from the corner of the Main
Stand and the Chaddy End, on Sheepfoot Lane. There
is also the Greyhound pub, which is across Broadway
down Holden Fold Lane.
Chippy Lees, an exiled Latics fans in Cornwall,
recommends the following; "The Old Grey Mare on
Rochdale Road is worth a visit. If you walk to the
top of Sheepfoot Lane and turn left at the newspaper
shop, the pub is about 100 yards down the road on
the right. There's a varied selection of beers
available, and again a warm welcome is assured.
Further down on the right is The White Hart".
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| How
To Get There By Car & Where To Park |
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Leave the M62 at
Junction 20 and take the A627(M) towards Oldham.
Take the second slip road off the A627(M) following
the signs for Royton (A663). At the top of the slip
road you will find a large roundabout that around it
has a McDonalds and a KFC. Turn left at the
roundabout onto the A663 towards Royton (beware
though of 30mph speed cameras on this stretch). You
will be able to see Boundary Park over on your
right. Take the next right hand turn into Hilbre
Avenue which will take you up to the large Club car
park, situated behind the Lookers Stand. The cost of
the car park is; cars £5, minibus £10,
coaches £15.
If you want to go straight to the Club main
entrance, then at the roundabout take the second
exit onto A627 Chadderton Way (signposted Oldham).
After around 300 yards take the first left into
Boundary Park Road and at the end of the road turn
right into Sheepfoot Lane.
Map
showing the location of Boundary Park (at
the bottom of this page).
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| By Train |
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Due to improvement
works to the line from Manchester, the two closest
stations to the ground, Oldham Mumps and Oldham
Werneth are both currently closed. This leaves only
Oldham Mill Hills station, but this is at least
a 30 minute walk away from the ground.
George Sutcliffe a visiting Sheffield United fan
informs me; 'I would recommend using Mills Hill
station until the new tramlink is built. If you
leave the station descend the ramp then turn right.
Then bear left into Haigh Lane which becomes
Chadderton Hall Road and then Burnley Lane (although
it is the same road) this takes you to the Toby
Carvery at the M627 roundabout from where the ground
is visible. Apart from a handful of Blades and a few
Manchester based Latics hardly anyone took this
route. There was also a large JW Lees pub called the
Rose Of Lancaster on Haigh Lane 200 yards from Mills
Hill Station which served food and had Sky Sports'.
Jon Brierley adds; 'Alternatively, rather than
getting a train from Manchester to Oldham, you may
find it easier to take a bus from Manchester
Piccadilly Bus Station. Services numbers 24, 181 & 182 make the 25
minute trip to Oldham and go past the ground. They
operate six buses an hour on Saturday
afternoons, with three an hour on evenings and
Sundays. Alternatively,
fans from the Yorkshire direction might like to
consider taking a train to Rochdale (direct
services from York, Leeds, Bradford & Halifax)
and then continuing to Boundary Park on bus 409
(every 10 minutes Saturday daytime, journey time
25 minutes)'.
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| Admission Prices |
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Like a
number of Clubs, Oldham operate a category
system (A, B & C), whereby the most
popular games cost more to watch. Category A
prices are shown below, with B & C in
brackets.
Home Fans:
Main Stand (Upper): Adults
£23 (B £18) (C £15), OAP's/Under
16's £12 (B
£9) (C £8)
Main Stand (Lower): Adults
£22 (B £17) (C £14),
OAP's/Under 16's £11 (B
£9) (C £7)
Detect All Alarms Chadderton
Road Stand:
Adults £23 (B
£18) (C £15), OAP's/Under 16's £12 (B
£9) (C £8) Under 12's
£3
Leesfield Developments Rochdale Road End:
Adults £23 (B £18)
(C £15), OAP's/Under
16's £12 (B £9) (C
£8) Under 12's £3
Away Fans:
Leesfield Developments Rochdale Road End:
Adults £23 (B £18) (C
£15), OAP's/Under
16's £12 (B £9) (C
£8) Under 12's £3
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| Programme Price |
| Official
Programme £3
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Ground
Layout
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| Local Rivals |
| Manchester
United, Manchester City & Stockport.
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| Disabled
Facilities |
| For
details of disabled facilities and club contact at the
ground please visit the relevant page on the Level
Playing Field website.
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| Fixtures 2011-2012 |
| Oldham Athletic FC fixture
list (takes you to the BBC
Sports Website)
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| Record & Average Attendance |
47,671 v Sheffield Wednesday
FA Cup 5th Round, January 25th, 1930.
Modern All Seated Attendance
Record:
13,171 v Manchester City
FA Cup 3rd Round, January 8th, 2005.
Average Attendance:
2010-2011: 4,392 (League One)
2009-2010: 4,630 (League One)
2008-2009: 5,636 (League One)
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| Fans Reviews
Of Boundary Park |
Teresa
Jewell (Sheffield Wednesday) 10/12/11
George
Campbell (Sheffield United) 6/8/11
Dan Portch (Leicester
City) 18/10/08
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| Hotel
Accommodation |
| If you require hotel
accommodation in the area then first try a hotel
booking service provided by Late Rooms. They offer all
types of accommodation to suit all tastes and pockets
from; Budget Hotels, Traditional Bed & Breakfast
establishments to Five Star Hotels and Serviced
Apartments. Plus their booking system is
straightforward and easy to use. Yes this site will
earn a small commission if you book through them, but
it will go to help with the running costs of keeping
the Guide going. The Hotels listing also includes
details of how far away the accommodation is located
from the football ground. Access their Oldham
Hotels and Guest Houses page.
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| Map
showing the location of Boundary Park and
listed pubs |
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Instructions
for using the map:
- Use the bar on the left of the map to zoom in /
out using the + / - keys.
- Click and drag an area of the map to move around
or use the up/down, left/right arrows
- Click the Satellite button to see aerial view
photograph.
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| Feedback |
If anything is incorrect or
you have something to add, please e-mail me duncan@footballgrounds.net
and I'll update the guide.
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