Feighan Park
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| Location | Seaman Avenue Warners Bay, New South Wales |
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| Coordinates | 32°58′12″S 151°38′19″E / 32.9700231°S 151.638707839°E |
| Owner | City of Lake Macquarie |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Opened | 1936 |
| Renovated | 2020 |
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| Warners Bay Football Club (AFL) Warners Bay Cricket Club (Cricket) | |
Feighan Park also known as Feighan oval is a sporting venue in Warners Bay, Australia.
History
[edit]The ground is used for Australian rules football and cricket. The ground is on land donated by Charles and Elizabeth (Granny) Feighan in 1936. A plaque commemorating this donation was erected in the park in 1989.[1] In the early 1950s there were proposals to sell part of the park for housing with the money raised to be used for extra road access and improved sporting facilities.[2] In 2020 a new clubhouse and amenities building was erected. The upgrade was made possible through a $300,000 grant from the NSW Government's Infrastructure Grants program, combined with $150,000 from AFL NSW/ACT.[3]
Facilities
[edit]In addition to the clubhouse and amenities building the park features two AFL fields, two turf cricket wickets and a concrete wicket, plus practice wickets, and a mobile grandstand.[4]
Usage
[edit]Feighan Park is the home of the Warners Bay Cricket Club founded in 1930 and the Warners Bay Australian Rules Football Club founded in 1972.
Gallery
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Close up of the pavilion. -
Feighan Park playing fields. -
Feighan Park commemoration plaque. The words read: "This plaque was erected in 1989 by the descendants in honour of Charles and Elizabeth Feighan, early pioneers of the area who donated this land in 1936 for recreational purposes." -
Foot bridge over North Creek entering into Feighan Park.
