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Tag Archives: Dorset Premier League

The Forum

15 Thursday Mar 2018

Posted by laurencereade in B

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Blandford Forum, Blandford United, Dorset, Dorset Premier League, Football, groundhopping, Non League, Recreation Ground, Wareham Rangers

Saturday 10th March 2018 ko 15.00

Dorset Premier League

BLANDFORD UNITED 4 (Culliford 12 Linford 50 Ford 80 90)

WAREHAM RANGERS 1 (Collings 10)

Att c30

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Blandford Forum really is the quintessential market town. Even the suffix “Forum” is derived from the Latin word for market. Even in these busier, more connected times, you feel that if you’re visiting Weymouth, Dorchester or Blackmore Vale, you’ll pass through here. Continue reading →

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Snowdrops

26 Friday Feb 2016

Posted by laurencereade in S

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Cockrams, Coppice Street, Dorset Premier League, Merley Cobham Sports, Shaftesbury, Town

Wednesday 24th February 2016 ko 19.45

Dorset Premier League

SHAFTESBURY TOWN 3 (Matheszki 6 17 Bevis 25)

MERLEY COBHAM SPORTS 0

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Shaftesbury is one of those towns that surprises you. You are so clearly in Wessex Country, the place has the all the feel of a Hardy agricultural town, and you are only just over the border from Wiltshire! In fact so agricultural is the feel, that the famous Hovis advert with the boy pushing his baker’s bike up the hill was filmed here, by Ridley Scott, on Gold Hill. The town’s Millenium project involved the planting of 60,000 snowdrop bulbs to provide a spectacular Snowdrop walk each year! Continue reading →

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Individuality

27 Friday Feb 2015

Posted by laurencereade in C

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Chard Town, Dorset Premier League, Roman Glass St George, Somerset County League, Western League, Zembard Lane

Wednesday 25th February 2015 ko 19.30

Western League Division One

CHARD TOWN 1 (Chlopecki 38)

ROMAN GLASS ST GEORGE 2 (Hamilton-Dunn 42 88)

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Entry £5

Programme £1

When groundhoppers talk over a pint, often its ground quirks that dominate the conversation. If the topic of sloping pitches comes up you soon find out who’s been to Chard or not. Put simply the ground at Zembard Lane is the slope to which all other slopes are compared.

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The Colour of Magic

20 Sunday Oct 2013

Posted by laurencereade in W

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Dave O'Hare, Devizes, Dorset Premier League, Dorset Senior League, Keiran Davis, Lee Gale, Town, Western League, Wincanton, Wincanton Racecourse, Yeovil Town

Saturday 19th October 2013 ko 15.00

Western League Division One

WINCANTON TOWN 5 (O’Hare 2 35 Gale 12 90 Davis 89)

DEVIZES TOWN 0

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Entry £5

Programme £1

To the groundhopper the A303 is something of a mixed blessing. The arterial road has no end of interesting sites to visit, and a multiplicity of quirky football grounds to be discovered. If you haven’t been to these two, Amesbury http://wp.me/p1PehW-pz and Gillingham http://wp.me/p1PehW-fh are highly recommended. The downside of the road is the congested traffic particularly around Stonehenge, it’s always a good idea to factor in an extra 30 minutes for your journey.

Wincanton is a small market town which is just about in Somerset. In fact to give you an idea of how close to the border with Dorset you are, the football club played for much of its history in the Somerset Senior League before transferring to the Dorset Senior League then being promoted to the Dorset Premier League. Last season they finished runners-up and gained promotion to the Western League for the first time in their history.

Of course in sporting terms the town is far more famous for Continue reading →

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