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1984–85 Western Football League
The 1984–85 season was the 83rd in the history of the Western Football League. The league champions for the first time in their history were Saltash United. The champions of Division One were Portway Bristol.Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006 Final tables Premier Division The Premier Division was increased from 20 to 22 clubs after Wellington were relegated to the First Division. Three clubs joined: * Bristol City Reserves, champions of the First Division. * Chard Town, runners-up in the First Division. * Paulton Rovers, third-placed club in the First Division. First Division The First Division consisted of 22 clubs, increased from 21 the previous season, after Bristol City Reserves, Chard Town and Paulton Rovers were promoted to the Premier Division. Four new clubs joined: * Ilfracombe Town, from the North Devon League – rejoining after leaving the league in 1959. * Torrington, from the South Western League. *Wellington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 is also known as the Jewson Western League for sponsorship reasons. Recent restructuring of the English football league system has placed the two divisions, known as the Premier Division and Division One (each a maximum of twenty-two clubs) at the ninth and tenth tiers overall, known as Step 5 and Step 6 of the National League System. The champion club get promoted to a Step 4 league, which in practice will almost certainly be the Southern Football League, Southern League Division One South. Below the Western League are four local leagues covering smaller areas, the Gloucestershire County League, the Somerset County League, the Dorset Premier League and the Wiltshire League. The South West Peninsula League Premier Divisions East and Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnstaple Town F
Barnstaple ( or ) is a river-port town and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. The town lies at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool from which it earned great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, but its harbour silted up and other trades developed such as shipbuilding, foundries and sawmills. A Victorian market building survives, with a high glass and timber roof on iron columns. Toponymy The name is first recorded in the 10th century and is thought to derive from the Early English ''bearde'', meaning "battle-axe", and ''stapol'', meaning "pillar", i.e. a post or pillar to mark a religious or administrative meeting place. The derivation from ''staple'' meaning "market", indicating a market from its foundation, is likely to be incorrect, as the use of ''staple'' in that sense first appears in 1423. Barnstaple was formerly referred to as "Barum", as a contraction of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Western Football League
The South Western Football League was an English association football league composed of clubs from Cornwall and west and north Devon. It consisted of a single division at the eleventh overall tier of the English football league system, the seventh and lowest "Step" of the official National League System. The East Cornwall League and Cornwall Combination ranked below the South Western on the overall pyramid, and in turn have feeder leagues of their own. Champions of the South Western League, whose last principal sponsor was the ''Carlsberg'' beer brand via St. Austell Brewery, were eligible for promotion to the lower division of the Western League, but the difficulties Cornish teams have travelling further afield have discouraged applications for promotion. Truro City took this step in 2006. The lowest-ranked clubs in the 2004–05 FA Cup all came from the South Western League, no other clubs from leagues at that pyramid level having been accepted. Among them were St. Blazey, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torrington F
Torrington may refer to: People * Arthur Torrington, Guyanese-born co-founder of the Windrush Foundation and the Equiano Society * Jeff Torrington, Scottish writer * John Torrington, English explorer and Royal Navy stoker * George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, British naval officer and statesman Places Australia * Torrington, New South Wales * Torrington, Queensland Canada * Torrington, Alberta United Kingdom * Black Torrington, a village in Devon * East Torrington, a small village in Lincolnshire * Great Torrington, a market town in north Devon * Little Torrington, a village in Devon * West Torrington, a small village in Lincolnshire * Torrington (UK Parliament constituency), in Devon United States * Torrington, Connecticut * Torrington, Wyoming Other uses *Battle of Torrington The Battle of Torrington (16 February 1646) was a decisive battle of the south-western campaign of the First English Civil War and marked the end of Royalist resistance in the West Country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Devon Football League
The North Devon Football League is a Association football, football competition based in England, established in 1904. The top division of this league, the Premier Division, operates at level 12 of the English football league system and has been a feeder to the Devon Football League since 2019, and previously, the South West Peninsula League. The ''North Devon Gazette'' sponsors the league and so the full, sponsored name of the league is the North Devon Gazette Football League. The league covers a radius from Barnstaple. 2023–24 Members Premier Division *Appledore F.C., Appledore Reserves *Appledore Lions *Boca Seniors *Braunton *Eastside *Fremington *Hartland Clovelly *Holsworthy A.F.C., Holsworthy Reserves *Landkey Town *North Molton Sports Club Reserves *Park United *Shamwickshire Rovers Senior Division *AFC Dumnonii *Barum United *Bideford A.F.C., Bideford Reserves *Braunton Reserves *Combe Martin *Fremington Reserves *Ilfracombe Town F.C., Ilfracombe Town Reserves *Lyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilfracombe Town F
Ilfracombe ( ) is a seaside resort and civil parishes in England, civil parish on the North Devon coast, England, with a small harbour surrounded by cliffs. The parish stretches along the coast from the 'Coastguard Cottages' in Hele Bay toward the east and along the Torrs to Lee Bay toward the west. The resort is hilly and the highest point within the parish boundary is 'Hore Down Gate', inland and 860 feet (270 m) above sea level. The landmark of Hillsborough, Devon, Hillsborough Hill dominates the harbour and the site of an Iron Age fortified settlement. In the built environment, the architectural-award-winning Landmark Theatre, Devon, Landmark Theatre has a distinctive double-conical design. The 13th-century parish church, Holy Trinity Church, Ilfracombe, Holy Trinity, and the St Nicholas's Chapel (a lighthouse) on Lantern Hill, have been joined by Damien Hirst's statue of ''Verity (statue), Verity'' as points of interest. History Ilfracombe has been settled since the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devizes Town F
Devizes () is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman architecture, Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-century civil war between Stephen of England and Empress Matilda, and again during the English Civil War when the Cavaliers lifted the siege at the Battle of Roundway Down and the Roundhead, Parliamentarian Army of the West under Sir William Waller was routed. Devizes remained under Royalist control until 1645, when Oliver Cromwell attacked and forced the Royalists to surrender. The castle was Slighting, destroyed in 1648 on the orders of Parliament, and today little remains of it. From the 16th century Devizes became known for its textiles, and by the early 18th century it held the largest corn market in the West Country, constructing the Corn Exchange, Devizes, Corn Exchange in 1857. In the 18th century, brewing, curing of tobacco, and Snuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepton Mallet F , village and civil parish in Somerset, England
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Shepton may refer to: * Shepton, Texas, area within Plano, Texas, United States that was formerly a distinct community * Shepton Beauchamp, village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England *Shepton Mallet, small rural town and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England *HM Prison Shepton Mallet, a former prison located in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England *Shepton Montague Shepton Montague is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the River Pitt midway between Wincanton, Bruton and Castle Cary. It is known for its dairy farming and one of the country's main centres of o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taunton Town F
Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a Minster (church), minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century priory, monastic foundation, owned by the Bishop of Winchester, Bishops of Winchester, which was rebuilt as Taunton Castle by the Normans in the 12th century. Parts of the inner ward house were turned into the Museum of Somerset and Somerset Military Museum. For the Second Cornish uprising of 1497, Perkin Warbeck brought an army of 6,000; most surrendered to Henry VII on 4 October 1497. On 20 June 1685, the James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England in Taunton in the failed Monmouth Rebellion. Judge Jeffreys led the Bloody Assizes in the Castle's Great Hall. The Grand Western Canal reached Taunton in 1839 and the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1842. Today it hosts Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset County Cricket Club, is the base of 40 Comma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weston-super-Mare A
Weston-super-Mare ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the North Somerset unitary district, in the county of Somerset, England. It lies by the Bristol Channel south-west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill. Its population at the 2021 census was 82,418. The area around the town has been occupied since the Iron Age. It was still a small village until the 19th century when it developed as a seaside resort. A railway station and two piers were built. In the second half of the 20th century it was connected to the M5 motorway but the number of people holidaying in the town declined and some local industries closed, although the number of day visitors has risen. Attractions include the Grand Pier, Weston Museum and The Helicopter Museum. Cultural venues include The Playhouse, the Winter Gardens and the Blakehay Theatre. The Bristol Channel has the second largest tidal range in the world; the low tide mark in Weston Bay is about from the seafront. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frome Town F
Frome ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Somerset, England, on uneven high ground at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills and on the River Frome, Somerset, River Frome, south of Bath, Somerset, Bath. The population of the parish was 28,559 in 2021. Frome was one of the largest towns in Somerset until the Industrial Revolution. The town first grew due to the wool and cloth industry; it later diversified into metal-working and printing, although these have declined. The town was enlarged during the 20th century but retains a large number of listed buildings, and most of the centre falls within a conservation area. The town has road and rail transport links and acts as an economic centre for the surrounding area. It provides a centre for cultural and sporting activities, including the annual Frome Festival and Frome Museum. In 2014, Frome was named by ''The Times'' as the "sixth coolest town" in Britain. It was shortlisted as one of three towns in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clevedon Town F
Clevedon (, ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, England. It recorded a parish population of 21,281 in the United Kingdom Census 2011, estimated at 21,442 in 2019. It lies along the Severn Estuary, among small hills that include Church Hill, Wain's Hill (topped by the remains of an Iron Age hill fort), Dial Hill, Strawberry Hill, Castle Hill, Hangstone Hill and Court Hill, a Site of Special Scientific Interest with overlaid Pleistocene deposits. It is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086. Clevedon grew in the Victorian period as a seaside resort. Facilities and functions The rocky beach has been designated as the Clevedon Shore Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Clevedon Pier, which opened in 1869, is one of the earliest surviving examples of a Victorian pier. On 17 October 1970, two outward spans collapsed. The pier and its buildings were restored and reopened on 27 May 1989. Clevedon Marine Lake is a tidal p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
