Church Road was a 4,500-capacity

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stadium Hayes,

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– the home ground of Hayes, and latterly Hayes & Yeading United, 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.
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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 United left the ground reluctantly at the end of the 2010–11 season, moving to a purportedly temporary groundshare at

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, with the intention of relocating to

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'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
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on Wednesdays and Fridays each week.

References

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