1950–51 Western Football League
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The 1950–51 season was the 49th in the history of the
Western Football League The Western Football League is a association football, football league in South West England, covering Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, western Dorset, parts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. The league's current main sponsor is Jewson, so it ...
. Division Three was scrapped after only one season, and the league reverted to the previous two-division format. The champions for the second time in their history were
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, and the winners of Division Two were Stonehouse.Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006


Division One

Division One remained at eighteen members with two clubs promoted to replace Soundwell and Bath City Reserves, who were relegated to Division Two. * Barnstaple Town, champions of Division Two * Dorchester Town, runners-up in Division Two


Division Two

Division Two was increased from eighteen clubs to twenty, after Barnstaple Town and Dorchester Town were promoted to Division One, and
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left the league. Six new clubs joined: * Bath City Reserves, relegated from Division One. * Bideford Town, promoted as champions of Division Three. *
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* Ilfracombe Town, promoted as runners-up of Division Three. *
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, promoted as third-placed club in Division Three. * Soundwell, relegated from Division One.


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