Since May 2023 this facility in Redruth has been leased to Redruth United Football Club CIC. All general site enquiries should be directed to them as tenants.
The 6.5Ha Clijah Croft Playing Fields in Redruth provides changing rooms, 4 senior football pitches and 1 junior.
It is likely that the football club will need to restrict access to some of the football pitches. Access along the public right of way from Wheal Trefusis to Bucketts Hill will continue, as will the permissive connection from Clijah Lane.
Some areas of former mine workings have been fenced off and new woodland is being established. This will provide ground stabilisation, visual and wildlife benefits, and will contribute to the Forest for Cornwall target. The public are asked to keep out of these areas for their own safety.
Owing to the former uses of the site, changes at ground level, such as new settlement, should be reported to Redruth United, who will assess initially. Cornwall Council will remain involved in such occurrences and if required can arrange for further investigation.
History of the fields
The playing fields are located within an intensely mined area. Predominantly it comprises the principal mine sites of Wheal Wentworth and Clijah Croft Mine. By the end of the 19th Century it was being worked as Perseverance Mine.
By the 1960’s one sports pitch had been constructed near the southeast corner. Sometime later the site was used for landfill and then entirely re-developed into the three fields on different levels.
Between 2019-21 two of the three fields were made safer with the addition of a reinforcement geogrid. This geogrid was laid 500mm below the surface, along with the enclosed areas for woodland.
