Burton Park Wanderers Football Club is a

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club based in Burton Latimer,

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. They are currently members of the and play at Latimer Park.

History

The club was formed in 1961 as Kettering Park Wanderers. They joined Division Two of the United Counties League in 1968, which became Division One in 1972. The club adopted their current name in 1973. After finishing second-from-bottom of Division One in 1977–78, they were relegated to Division Two. However, the division was disbanded two years later and they were returned to Division One. In 1988–89 they were Division One runners-up, earning promotion to the Premier Division. Two seasons later they finished bottom of the Premier Division and were relegated back to Division One. Burton Park Wanderer remained in Division One for the next thirty seasons, only finishing in the top half on four occasions and finishing bottom of the division in 1988–99, for five consecutive seasons between 2001–02 and 2005–06, and again in 2012–13, 2015–16 and 2016–17. At the end of the 2020–21 season they were transferred to Division One of the

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Ground

The club initially played at the Rockingham Road Pleasure Park in

Kettering Kettering is a market and industrial town in North Northamptonshire, England. It is located north of London and north-east of Northampton, west of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene. The name means "the place (or territory) ...

before moving to the Pytchley Road pitches elsewhere in the town in the late 1960s.Preview: Burton Park Wanderers
Rothwell Corinthians F.C.Kettering historian seeks images of former football ground for new book
Northants Telegraph, 3 March 2015 They relocated to Latimer Park in Burton Latimer in 1973. File:Burton Park Wanderers fc main stand.jpg, Main stand File:Burton Park Wanderers fc morrisons end covered end walkway.jpg, Morrisons End File:Burton Park Wanderers fc station road covered terrace .jpg, Station road covered terrace File:Burton Park Wanderers fc temporary pitch side covered seating stand .jpg, Temporary covered seating stand File:Burton Park Wanderers fc ground entrance and turnstiles.jpg, Ground entrance and turnstiles File:Burton Park Wanderers fc dugout side and media tv gantry .jpg, Dugout side and media tv gantry

Records

*Best

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performance: Second round 1974–75 *Record attendance: 253 vs Rothwell Town, May 1989Mike Williams & Tony Williams (2012) ''Non-League Club Directory 2013'', p646

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