The club's home ground is in the suburb of East Lindfield.

[2] The Lindfield Rugby Club was founded in 1919 by soldiers returning from the first world war.

[2] Lindfield finally secured promotion to the top level again for 2016,[1] but the club was found to have breached amateur status a few weeks before the end of the season and was prohibited from playing for the remainder of the year before being relegated to second division for 2017.

[4] The first Lindfield player to be selected for Australia in international rugby was Bruce Taafe in 1969.

[2][5] More recently, players including Wallabies Stirling Mortlock, Andrew Blades, and Cameron Blades and Canadian international Evan Olmstead have been Lindfield club members.