On 19 January 1876, Mr A. Fearnsides – a Savile estate tenant – had agreed to sub-let the field to Dewsbury Athletic and Football Club for an initial payment of £20 per year.

The earliest surviving reference to the Crown Flatt enclosure is the one goal to nil defeat by Leeds Caledonians on 22 January 1876.

"Noah’s Ark" - a 3,500-seater grandstand purchased from the Royal Agricultural Show at Preston for £170 was erected along the southern touchline in time for the visit of Morley on 26 September 1885.

[1] In November 1897, the committee of Dewsbury and Savile Football and Athletic Club decided to abandon rugby union in favour of soccer and in mid-1898, to vacate Crown Flatt.

In September 1898 after rejecting an approach from the new Northern Union tenants, the Dewsbury and Savile committee received notice to remove their property from the ground before the end of the month.

By 17 September both the wooden top stand and "Noah’s Ark" opposite had been dismantled and the remains were sold to the local Poor Law Union for use as firewood.

[2] Crown Flatt's only grandstand, built in 1914 - the other three sides of the ground remained open and largely undeveloped for many years - was destroyed in an act of arson on the evening of 13 September 1988, when three youths set fire to it.

Following the disaster, Dewsbury continued to play on at Crown Flatt for three more years, with a temporary metal stand being provided by local firm Duncan Developments, who subsequently bought the entire site for redevelopment and built the modern housing estate that stands there today, the streets of which are named after notable Dewsbury players.

It incorporates 900 seats, hospitality boxes, club administrative office and also the players' changing rooms, tunnel and team dugouts.