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2016–17 Eastern Counties Football League
The 2016–17 Eastern Counties Football League season (known as the 2016–17 Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 74th in the history of the Eastern Counties Football League, a football competition in England. Premier Division The Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs, promoted from the Division One: * Ely City * Great Yarmouth Town *Wivenhoe Town League table Promotion criteria To be promoted at the end of the season a team must: # Have applied to be considered for promotion by the end of November # Pass a ground grading examination by the end of March # Finish the season in a position higher than that of any other team also achieving criteria 1 and 2 # Finish the season in one of the top three positions The following four teams have achieved criterion one: * Felixstowe & Walton United * Mildenhall Town * Newmarket Town * Stanway Rovers Stadia and locations ...
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Eastern Counties Football League
The Eastern Counties Football League, currently known as the Thurlow Nunn League for sponsorship purposes, is an English football league at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It currently contains clubs from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, eastern Cambridgeshire, eastern Hertfordshire, southern Lincolnshire, and north and east London. The league is a feeder to Division One North of the Isthmian League. History Formation During the early part of the 20th century there were several leagues covering East Anglia, including the Norfolk & Suffolk League, the East Anglian League, the Essex & Suffolk Border League and the Ipswich & District League, whilst some of the larger clubs (including Ipswich Town and Cambridge Town) played in the Southern Amateur League. Suggestions of forming a league to cover the whole region had been made since the early 1900s, but intensified after Norwich City were promoted to Division Two of the Football League in 1934 and saw a significa ...
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Kirkley & Pakefield F
Kirkley is a district within the town of Lowestoft in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located south of the centre of Lowestoft and the town's harbour and Lake Lothing. Kirkley was originally an independent village but is now part of the urban conurbation of Lowestoft. In 1901 the parish had a population of 6465. History Kirkley was briefly mentioned in the Domesday Book at which time it formed part of King William's estates and was held by Roger Bigot. Suckling. A. (1846) 'Kirkley', ''The history and antiquities of the County of Suffolk: volume 1'' pp.260-269available online. Retrieved 2011-04-18. The area is described as a village with a population of around 433 by Suckling in 1846, with its main industry being fishing. The former parish church is dedicated to St Peter and St John Church. The church had fallen into disrepair by 1640, with restoration taking place at some point in the 18th Century.Page.A (1844) 'Kirkley Parish', ''Topographica ...
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Suffolk And Ipswich League
The Suffolk and Ipswich Football League is a association football, football competition based in Suffolk, England. The league has a total of eight divisions; the Senior Division and Divisions 1–3 for first teams, three divisions (Leagues A, B and C) for reserve teams, and Division 4, which is for open to both first teams and reserves and is subordinate to both Division 3 and League C. The Senior Division is at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System. The league was founded in 1896 as the Ipswich & District League changing its name in 1978.KP Wood (1996). ''Five Score - The SIL Football Book Of The Century'', p. 184. . The Senior Division champions may apply for promotion to the Eastern Counties Football League, Eastern Counties League Division One. Clubs from the league to progress up the pyramid include Whitton United F.C., Whitton United, Sudbury Town F.C., Sudbury Town, Hadleigh United F.C., Hadleigh United, Woodbridge Town F.C., Woodbridge Town, Needham Market F. ...
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Framlingham Town F
Framlingham is a market town and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Of Anglo-Saxon origin, it appears in the 1086 Domesday Book. The parish had a population of 3,342 at the 2011 Census and an estimated 4,016 in 2019. Nearby villages include Earl Soham, Kettleburgh, Parham, Saxtead and Sweffling. Governance An electoral ward of the same name exists. The parish stretches north-east to Brundish with a total ward population taken at the 2011 Census of 4,744. Features Framlingham's history can be traced to an entry in the Domesday Book (1086) when it then consisted of several manors. The medieval Framlingham Castle is a major feature and tourist attraction for the area, managed by English Heritage. Mary Tudor (daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon) was proclaimed the first Queen of England there in 1553. It is referred to in Ed Sheeran's 2017 single "Castle on the Hill", Sheeran having grown up in Framlingham. There is a large lake or mere next to it which ...
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Essex And Suffolk Border League
The Essex and Suffolk Border Football League is a football competition based in England. The league has a total of four divisions headed by the Premier Division which sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System. The top club may apply for promotion to Division One of the Eastern Counties League. All member clubs compete in the Border League Knock-Out Cup. The league is affiliated to the Essex County FA and Suffolk County FA. History The league was officially founded in 1911,2016–2017 Official Handbook
Essex & Suffolk Border League
although the league includes records of the Colchester Borough League (founded 1893) and Colchester & District League (founded 1903) in its history. Founder members of the Border League in the inaugural 1911–12 season ...
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Haverhill Borough F
Haverhill is the name of different places around the world: United Kingdom *Haverhill, Suffolk, England United States * Haverhill, Florida, city in Florida, United States. * Haverhill, Iowa, city in Iowa, United States. * Haverhill, Kansas, city in Kansas, United States. * Haverhill, Massachusetts, city in Massachusetts, United States. ** Haverhill station (Massachusetts), railroad station served by Amtrak and the MBTA. *** Haverhill Line, MBTA commuter rail system * Haverhill, New Hampshire, city in New Hampshire, United States. * Haverhill, Ohio, city in Ohio, United States * Haverhill Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota * Haverhill station, a railroad location in Marion Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota previously named for Chester, Minnesota Chester is an unincorporated community in Marion Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States. It is located immediately east of Rochester Rochester may refer to: Places Australia * Rochester, Victoria Canada * Roches ...
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Coggeshall Town F
Coggeshall ( or ) is a small town in Essex, England, between Colchester and Braintree on the Roman road Stane Street and the River Blackwater. It has almost 300 listed buildings and a market whose charter was granted in 1256 by Henry III. Etymology The meaning of the name Coggeshall is much debated. Different pronunciations and spellings have been used throughout its history and many theories as to the name's origin have arisen. The earliest mention of the name is in a grant from around 1040 where it is called ''Coggashael''. The Domesday Book from 1086 addresses the town as ''Cogheshal'' and it is mentioned elsewhere as ''Cogshall, Coxal'' and ''Gogshall''. Beaumont brought together several theories in his 1890 book ''A History of Coggeshall, in Essex''. #Weever 1631 wrote about a monument found on "Coccillway", thought that Coccill was a lord of the area in Roman days and a corruption of the name led to Coggeshall. #Dunkin thought that it was a concatenation of two Celtic ...
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Stowmarket Town F
Stowmarket ( ) is a market town in Suffolk, England,OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008. on the busy A14 trunk road between Bury St Edmunds to the west and Ipswich to the southeast. The town is on the main railway line between London and Norwich, and lies on the River Gipping, which is joined by its tributary, the River Rat, to the south of the town. The town takes its name from the Old English word ''stōw'' meaning "principal place", and was granted a market charter in 1347 by Edward III. A bi-weekly market is still held there today on Thursday and Saturday. The population of the town has increased from around 6,000 in 1981 to its current level of around 19,000, with considerable further development planned for the town and surrounding villages as part of an area action plan. It is the largest town in the Mid Suffolk district and is represented in parliament by the MP ...
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2017–18 Isthmian League
The 2017–18 season was the 103rd season of the Isthmian League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from London, East and South East England. It was also the twelfth season for the current incarnations of the Premier, North and South Divisions, the last to have two regional divisions, and the first as the Bostik League following a sponsorship deal with Bostik. In May 2017, the FA chose the Southern League to create one additional division at Step 3 and the Isthmian League to create one at Step 4 as part of the next change to the structure, and in March 2018, the Northern Premier League voted to reorganise its Step 4 divisions into an east-west alignment, with all Step 3 divisions contracting to 22 clubs and those at Step 4 to 20, taking effect in the 2018–19 season. Premier Division The Premier Division consisted of 24 clubs: 19 clubs from the previous season, and five new clubs: *Brightlingsea Regent, promoted as champions ...
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Walsham-le-Willows F
Walsham le Willows is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district, in Suffolk, England, located around 3 miles (4 km) south-east of Stanton. Queen Elizabeth I granted Walsham le Willows to Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1559. Because the village is documented unusually fully in surviving records of the time, the Cambridge historian John Hatcher chose to use it as the setting for his semi-fictionalised account of the effects of the mid-14th century plague epidemic in England, ''The Black Death: A Personal History'' (2008). Sport and leisure Walsham le Willows has a Non-League football club Walsham-le-Willows F.C. currently in the Eastern Counties League The Eastern Counties Football League, currently known as the Thurlow Nunn League for sponsorship purposes, is an English football league at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It currently contains clubs from Norfolk, Suff ... who play at Sumner Road. Sources *Ken ...
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Thetford Town F
Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England. It is on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just east of Thetford Forest. The civil parish, covering an area of , in 2015 had a population of 24,340./ There has been a settlement at Thetford since the Iron Age, and parts of the town predate the Norman Conquest; Thetford Castle was established shortly thereafter. Roger Bigod founded the Cluniac Priory of St Mary in 1104, which became the largest and most important religious institution in Thetford. The town was badly hit by the Dissolution of the Monasteries, including the castle's destruction, but was rebuilt in 1574 when Elizabeth I established a town charter. After World War II, Thetford became an " overspill town", taking people from London, as a result of which its population increased substantially. Thetford railway station is served by the Breckland line and is one of the best surviving pieces of 19th-century railway archite ...
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Stanway Rovers F
Stanway may refer to: Places * Stanway, Essex * Stanway, Gloucestershire People * Georgia Stanway (b. 1999), English association football player * Mark Stanway (b. 1954), a British musician * Peter Powers (real name Peter Stanway), a British television personality who purports to be a hypnotist Other * Stanway House Stanway House is a Jacobean manor house, located near the village of Stanway in Gloucestershire, England. The manor of Stanway was owned by Tewkesbury Abbey for 800 years then for 500 years by the Tracy family and their descendants, the Earls ..., a Jacobean manor house near Stanway, Gloucestershire * Stanway Rovers F.C., a football club based in Stanway, Essex {{disambiguation, geo ...
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