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Football, groundhopping, travel, Somerset Premier Cup, Somerset County League, Non League, Staplegrove, writing, history, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Watchet Town, War Memorial Ground, books
Saturday 27th December 2025 ko 14:00
Somerset County League
WATCHET TOWN 0
STAPLEGROVE 2 (Hibbert 86 Bidgeway 90+6)
Att 65
Free Entry
Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed
The light-house top I see?
Is this the hill? is this the kirk?
Is this mine own countree?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1797)
As is normal for Robyn and I, we split our time over Christmas between family in Oxford then family in Bristol, so that those days between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve tend to be spent in Knowle West. Or putting it another way, I do tend to see quite a lot of the Somerset County League at this time of year, and Watchet Town had been on my to-do list for quite a while.
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