"Perfect non-league ground"

I never got to see Rovers play at Twerton but from my first visit back in 2016 it's been one of my favorite grounds. The place is littered with charming traditional features and no small amount of crumbling here and there can't distract me from that.

It's a very hotchpotch stadium where no side matches up with any other. The main stand, or main stands to be precise, are separate from one another and consist of the large main stand and the smaller family stand. The main stand looks like it's been there for a bloody long time. The covered portion on top is all seated but there is a small slither of uncovered terracing below. The much smaller family stand looks like a more modern construction; it's florescent blue seats and orange pillars creating quite a clash with the greenish-grey corrugated iron of the main stand. Despite being called the family stand, I'm told it's given to away fans these days.

Opposite the main and family stands is a massive covered terrace that stretches the entire length of the pitch. A standout feature of this part of the ground is the fact that the terrace bows quite noticeably in the middle. Whether this is an oversight in the building process or a natural result of a well-loved 107 year old stadium I don't know but I'd like to think it was the latter.

The rest of the ground is uncovered terracing, a very shallow section on the end nearest the main entrance and a much larger, steeper section on the opposite end known as the 'Bristol End'. Studying old footage of Rovers at Twerton Park, the right side of this end was given over to away fans. One feature that I hadn't seen at many other grounds at the time is the curved terracing in each corner, which makes the stadium into a kind of bowl until it meets the seated stands. Bristol Rovers' current stadium has a slight curve on it's north terrace but it's not as pronounced as the one here. It's a very nice traditional feature.

If you're a fan on old grounds I thoroughly recommend getting to Twerton before the redevelopment the club are planning comes to fruition. Floodlights are lush too if that's your thing.

Location

Bit of an arse to park sometimes but it's very close to Oldfield Park station so you can't really complain.

Facilities

Decent bar on site but the toilets on the Popular Side aren't for the faint-hearted

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