The Yeovil Town Ladies first team play their home games at the Raleigh Grove Ground in Sherborne, the home of Sherborne Town Football Club. Agreement was made between Yeovil Town Ladies and Sherborne in the summer of 2010, and the Glovers moved to the ground in September 2010, sharing the facility with Sherborne Town’s first and reserve team.

The ground is located at the Terrace Playing Fields, which are situated on the southern edge of Sherborne at Dancing Hill. They are home to Sherborne Rugby Club, Sherborne Town Football Club, Sherborne Cricket Club and Sherborne Tennis Club.

It is a modern facility, and one befitting a ladies football club playing Premier League football, and is proving to be a fine playing home for the club, with excellent facilities and pitch all coming up to FA Women’s Premier league standards.

Sherborne Town FC moved to their current home at Raleigh Grove in 1986 after moving to the neighbouring Terrace Playing Fields from Marston Road in the 1930s.

The Raleigh Grove site was built on a grazing field, at the level of the raised banking that exists today on the northwest side of the ground. This had to be levelled, to create a playing area, a task made all the more difficult as there was a pond in the far right corner of the ground.

When the ground was built the club noted the regulations laid down for promotion from the Dorset Premier league at the time, so a covered section on the south west side of the ground was erected for supporters.

The pitch also had four drains laid to aid the playing surface. When the site was completed the new ground was somewhat ahead of its time, considering many of the club’s rivals at that time were based on little more than park or village pitches.

The record attendance at the ground is 1,000 versus Eastliegh (featuring ex-Southampton and England international Matthew Le Tissier), in the Andy Shephard Memorial match on 27 July 2003. Four Football League clubs have played at Raleigh Grove: Plymouth Argyle, Torquay United, Swindon Town and Yeovil Town.

The clubhouse was a project reflecting the forethought of the then chairman of the club, Ken Mullins. This spacious facility also incorporates the dressing rooms, bar, function room, kitchen, storeroom and toilets, including disabled facilities.

In 2001 the committee at Sherborne Town FC outlined a three-phase, five-year plan for the future development of the ground. The plans included a hard standing path along the north-west side of the pitch for spectators, a 150-seater stand on the same side, relocating the dugouts, clubhouse improvements, and the installation of floodlights.

Planning permission was granted in 2003 and in 2004 phases one and two were completed, with hard standing, a grandstand, new dugouts and floodlights erected and working in just three months.

Directions To Raleigh Grove

From Yeovil:
Take the A30 through Yeovil towards Sherborne. At the end of the dual carriageway on the outskirts of the town, turn right at traffic lights. Continue straight on for 3/4 a mile and through another set of traffic lights before coming to T-junction. Turn right before taking the second left shortly after leaving a 40mph limit, into The Terraces.

From Milborne Port:
On reaching Sherborne stay on the A30 through two sets of traffic lights, before turning left at the third set, at the start of the dual carriageway. Continue straight on for 3/4 a mile and through another set of traffic lights before coming to T-junction. Turn right before taking the second left shortly after leaving a 40mph limit, into The Terraces.