The first recorded match on the ground was in 1850, when Carlisle played an All-England Eleven.

[1] The ground hosted its first Minor Counties Championship match when Cumberland played the Yorkshire Second XI in 1955.

The ground has hosted 2 List-A matches, the first of which saw Cumberland play Middlesex in the 1996 NatWest Trophy.

The home county lost both of these matches against their professional, first-class opponents.

Being situated on the banks of the River Eden, the ground has suffered incidents of flooding in its history.