The track was located on the south side of the Swansea District railway line and the north side of Charles Street off Winifred Road. Originally it was just a field used by a cricket team called the Skewen Lillywhites and known as the Waun. The track was started in the 1930s and opened by Will Thomas on the field, around the same time as the adjacent Tennant Park which was built in 1936 for Skewen RFC. In 1967 the track added a football pitch inside the greyhound circuit and Neath Athletic FC became tenants, changing their name to Skewen Athletic (now called Neath F.C).
