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Carlton Town F.C.
Carlton Town Football Club is a Semi-professional sports#United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, semi-professional association football, football club based in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, Gedling, Nottinghamshire, England. Founded in 1904 as Sneinton Football Club, its early years were marked by considerable local success, leading to the club being described by the ''Manchester Courier'' in 1909 as "the leading Amateur sports, amateur football club in Nottingham". Its reputation declined for several decades afterwards, with the team participating in obscure county divisions until the 1995–96 season saw the club join the English football league system, nationwide league system. Carlton currently competes in the Northern Premier League Division One East at the eighth tier of the English football pyramid. Carlton has played its home games at the Bill Stokeld Stadium since the early 1990s. It won promotion in 2006–07 Northern Counties East Football League#Premier Div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gedling, Nottinghamshire
Gedling is a village in the Gedling district, in Nottinghamshire, England, four miles northeast of Nottingham city centre. The population at the 2011 census of the ward was 6,817 and 111,787 for the district. Gedling was recorded in the Domesday Book and is still a distinct settlement, although residential, commercial and industrial growth in the wider borough of Gedling and the neighbouring city of Nottingham, boroughs of Broxtowe and Rushcliffe and district of Ashfield (as well as the Derbyshire boroughs of Amber Valley and Erewash, which have become increasingly urban around Nottingham) means it can be difficult to distinguish the village of Gedling from the nearby town of Carlton, with which it has become contiguous. History Gedling was first settled around Saxon times, when the Saxon chief Gedl (hence the name Gedling, coming from the chief "Gedl" and "Ing" being Saxon for People, Gedl-Ing meaning "Gedl's People") sailed up the River Trent, and then up the Little Ouse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
