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Wilmslow Hockey Club is a
hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...
club in
Wilmslow Wilmslow ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England, south of Manchester city centre. The population was 24,497 at the 2011 Census. History Toponymy Wilmslow derives its name from Old ...
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Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, England. It was founded in 1896/97 as Wilmslow Men's Hockey Club. As of 2020, it is based at
Styal Styal (, like ''style'') is a village and civil parish on the River Bollin near Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. History Styal village grew during the early years of the Industrial Revolution when industrialist Samuel Greg built a cotton mill and ...
, and fields five men's and four women's teams, as well as several youth teams. The men's first team were promoted to the North Hockey League Premier Division at the end of the 2019–20 season. The women's first team play in the North League Division One.


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Wilmslow Hockey Club
Field hockey clubs in England Sport in Cheshire 1896 establishments in England Wilmslow {{Fieldhockey-team-stub