Wednesday 18th April 2012 ko 6.30pm

Oxon Senior League Division One

MIDDLETON CHENEY 5 (Twynham 26 42 S Finch 37 Mason 55 69)

ENSTONE SPORTS 1 (N Bott 83)

Att 23 (h/c)

Entry FREE

No Programme

The village of Middleton Cheney lies just off Junction 11 of the M40. You take one turn off for Banbury, another for Daventry and the last for here, on the road to Brackley. I must have travelled hundreds of times past the Astrop Road ground to Milton Keynes as the A422 rumbles along behind and below the far side of the pitch. That of course if you know me well, is a major reason for visiting any ground!

The village has its very own hero, Vice-Admiral (posthumously Admiral) Lancelot Holland who was killed on HMS Hood whilst in command of the British naval forces during the Battle of Denmark Strait in May 1941 against the German battleship Bismarck. Neither of the two local pubs are named after him but one in nearby Banbury is!

That’s a pointer to the confused identity of the place. Here’s a village in Northamptonshire under an Oxford postcode. The football team are affiliated to Continue reading →