The Great Western Combination was a football league in south-central England.
History
The league was established in 1939, initially as a wartime competition as many other leagues had been abandoned following the outbreak of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. Its original membership was amateur clubs from the area west of London.
[Great Western Combination 1939–1964]
Non-League Matters Although it ceased in 1945, it was re-established in 1946 and a second division was added in 1947;
[ this became the reserve division in 1956. The league folded at the end of the 1963–64 season.][
]
Champions
Member clubs
Member clubs during the league's existence included:
*AEC (1958–1964)
* Amersham Town (1949–1956)
*Aylesbury Town Corinthians (1958–1964)
* Aylesbury United Reserves (1946–1951)
*BEA (London) (1954–1964)
*BEA (Northholt) (1949–1954)
*Bell Punch (1948–1959)
* Berkhamsted Town (1946–1951)
*Binfield
Binfield is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, which at the 2011 census had a population of 8,689. The village lies north-west of Bracknell, north-east of Wokingham, and south-east of Reading at the westernmost extremity of ...
(1946–1951)
*Blue Circle (1955–1956)
* Bracknell Town (1958–1962)
*British Oxygen (1954–1955)
*Broomwade (1955–1960)
*Bucks NALGO (1950–1951)
* Burnham (1947–1964)
*Cavendish (1955–1960)
*Chalfont St Peter
Chalfont St Peter is a large village and civil parish in southeastern Buckinghamshire, England. It is in a group of villages called The Chalfonts which also includes Chalfont St Giles and Little Chalfont. The villages lie between High Wycombe a ...
(1948–1958)
*Chalvey (1954–1959)
*Chelsea Mariners (1955–1956)
* Chesham United (1939–1945)
* Chesham United Reserves (1946–1948)
*Croxley Wanderers (1951–1953)
*Eastcote (1951–1953)
*Ernest Turner's Sports (1951–1964)
*Flackwell Heath
Flackwell Heath is a village in the civil parish of Chepping Wycombe on the outskirts of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. With an elevation of about , in the Chiltern Hills. It has a population of around 6000.
History
The name 'Flack ...
(1950–1964)
* Ford Sports (1951–1952)
*Gerrard's Cross (1954–1956)
*Grenadier Guards (1941–1943)
*Hanwell Association (1954–1958)
* Harefield United (1947–1964)
* Harrow Town (1948–1950)
* Harrow Town Reserves (1947–1951)
* Hayes (1939–1940)
* Hazells (1949–1955)
*Hemel Hempstead Rovers (1947–1955)
*Hemel Hempstead Town (1949–1950)
* Henley Town (1939–1940, 1952–1955)
* Henley Town Reserves (1951–1952)
*Hestairco Sports (1952–1955)
* High Duty Alloys (1940–1947)
* Huntley & Palmers (1948–1949)
* Huntley & Palmer Reserves (1947–1948)
*Jackson' Sports (1949–1957)
*Kodak (1959–1964)
*Loudwater United (1955–1962)
* Lyons Club (1948–1950)
* Lyons Club Reserves (1947–1948)
*Maidenhead North Town (1954–1956)
*Maidenhead United
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(1939–1945)
* Maidenhead United Reserves (1946–1949)
* Marlow (1939–1945)
* Marlow Reserves (1947–1955)
*Mill End Sports (1949–1951)
*Oxford City
Oxford City Football Club is a semi-professional English association football club based in Marston, Oxford. They currently compete in the National League South, the sixth tier of English football, and play their home matches at Marsh Lane.
...
(1940–1945)
*Pinner
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Originally a med ...
(1946–1951)
*Princes Risborough (1953–1954)
*Queensborough (1958–1964)
* RAF Halton (1948–1952)
*RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It houses Headquarters Air Command, and was originally designed to house RAF Bomber Command in the late 1930s ...
(1943–1945)
*Reading Aerodrome (1953–1957)
* Reading Reserves (1940–1945)
* Rickmansworth Town Reserves (1954–1956)
*Rootes Athletic (1954–1955)
*Royal Ascot (1955–1958)
*Ruislip Gardens (1952–1955)
*Ruislip
Ruislip ( ) is an area in the London Borough of Hillingdon in West London, and in the historic county of Middlesex. Ruislip lies west-north-west of Charing Cross, London.
The manor of Ruislip appears in the Domesday Book, and some of the ear ...
(1946–1949)
* Ruislip Manor Reserves (1947–1949)
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*Seer Green (1958–1964)
*Slough
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(1939–1940)
* Slough Centre (1942–1950)
* Slough Centre Reserves (1947–1951)
* Slough United (1943–1945)
*Southall Corinthians (1951–1964)
* Staines Town Reserves (1953–1956)
* Stokenchurch Reserves (1954–1955)
*Terriers Athletic (1963–1964)
* Tring Town (1948–1954)
* Twickenham Town (1953–1954)
* Uxbridge Reserves (1946–1948)
*Uxbridge Town (1939–1945)
*Vickers Sports (1952–1957)
*Vickers Sports Reserves (1955–1956)
*Wendover (1948–1950)
* Willesden Reserves (1949–1951)
* Windsor & Eton (1939–1945)
* Windsor & Eton Reserves (1946–1945)
*Windsor Works (1942–1948)
* Wingate Reserves (1951–1952)
* Wokingham Town (1951–1956)
*Wycombe Redfords (1939–1948)
* Wycombe Wanderers 'A' (1948–1949)
* Wycombe Wanderers Reserves (1947–1948)
*Wycombe Wanderers
Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. They play their ho ...
(1939–1945)
*Yiewsley
Yiewsley ( ) is a large suburban village in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, 2 miles (3 km) south of Uxbridge, the borough's commercial and administrative centre. Yiewsley was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Hillingdon, Middl ...
(1944–1951)
References
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Defunct football leagues in England
1939 establishments in England
1964 disestablishments in England