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Cradley Town F.C.
Cradley Town Football Club is a football club based in Cradley, near Halesowen in the West Midlands. They are currently members of the and play at Beeches View. History The club was established in 1970 by a merger of Albion Rovers and Haden Rangers.Club History Cradley Town F.C. The new club played in the Premier Division of the West Midlands Metropolitan League, which they won at the first attempt. Under the name Albion Haden United, they joined Division Two of the Midland Combination in 1971. Non-Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cradley, West Midlands
Cradley () is a village in the Black Country and Metropolitan Borough of Dudley near Halesowen and the banks of the River Stour. Colley Gate is the name of the short road in the centre of Cradley. It was part of the ancient parish of Halesowen, but unlike much of the rest of that parish, which was an exclave of Shropshire, Cradley was always in Worcestershire, until the creation of the West Midlands county in 1974. This meant that for civil administrative purposes, Cradley formerly had the officers which a parish would have had. The population of the appropriate Dudley Ward (Cradley and Wollescote) taken at the 2011 census was 13,340. There are two villages named Cradley in the Midlands of England although the names are pronounced differently; the "other" Cradley lies about 30 miles to the southwest, near to the Malvern Hills in south Worcestershire, but just across the county boundary in Herefordshire. In the 19th century a new settlement grew up in heathland on the other si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
