Church Road was a 4,500-capacity

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stadium Hayes,

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– the home-ground of

Hayes F.C. Hayes Football Club was an English association football club based in Hayes, Middlesex. History left, Botwell Mission, in 1910/11 Hayes were formed in 1909 by Eileen Shackle, who wished to create a club to encourage boys to participate in spo ...

, and latterly Hayes & Yeading United F.C. following the two clubs' merger in 2007.Hayes & Yeading to leave Church Road ground
BBC Sport, 28 March 2011

History

After initially playing at Botwell Common, Hayes F.C. (then known as Botwell Mission) moved to the ground in Church Road. The site was originally named Cox's Meadow and later Townfield. It officially opened with a Whites vs Stripes trial match on 26 August 1920.
Pyramid Passion During

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the clubhouse was hit by a bomb dropped by the

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. The record attendance at the ground was 15,370 for an

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match against

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in 1951. Hayes & Yeading F.C. left the ground reluctantly at the end of the 2010–11 season, moving to a purportedly temporary groundshare at Woking's

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, with the intention of relocating to Yeading's Warren ground in Beaconsfield Road. The Church Road stadium was demolished in 2011, making way for a swiftly built

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housing development.Hayes and Yeading's Church Road – the final whistle
Uxbridge Gazette, 15 September 2010 For some twenty years before its demolition, the spacious car-park at the front of the former stadium was the site of a popular local community

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on Wednesdays and Fridays each week.

References

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