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The Dell on Milton Road, Southampton, Hampshire, England, was the home ground of Southampton between 1898 and 2001.

Since 1896, Southampton had been a tenant of Hampshire County Cricket Club at the County Ground, having vacated the Antelope Ground in the summer of 1896. The rent payable to the cricket club – £200 a year – was putting a strain on the football club's finances and, in an attempt to reduce this burden, the club had considered a merger with the Freemantle club and a move to its ground in Shirley. The merger proposals had fallen through, but at the extraordinary general meeting in June 1897, the members were informed that "the committee had a ground in view".