[1] The first fixture saw Yorkshire play Cambridgeshire while Essex were the visitors in the final game held there.
Yorkshire twice played the touring Australians at the ground and, in its earliest days, several first class 'All England' fixtures were held.
Bertram Harold Smithson, the father of Yorkshire and England cricketer Gerald Smithson, was cricket professional and head groundsman for Dewsbury & Savile CC in the early 1930s.
The ground was abandoned in the 1990s after the incumbent club, Dewsbury & Savile CC, could not afford to renovate the classic pre-war pavilion to modern standards.
The local council refused financial aid without a guarantee that the club, ground and adjoining football field could be used for the wider community.