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Retford United F.C.
Retford United Football Club (also known as 'The Badgers') are an English football club based at Cannon Park in Retford, Nottinghamshire. They currently play in the . History The club was founded in 1987 by Retfordian Brian Jackson to give the town a senior club after Retford Town had gone out of business. The club's inaugural season was in the Gainsborough & District League which was successful so it applied to join the Notts Football Alliance the following season and competed in that league up until 2001, when local business man Dean Vivians financial support, built the club house, ground, floodlights, everything necessary to rise up the football pyramid and they joined the Central Midlands League. Promotion after promotion followed and Just three years passed before another milestone was reached and the club joined the Northern Counties East League. The success continued, finishing as runners-up in the Northern Counties East League Division One in 2005–06, gaining promo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retford
Retford (), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfield Canal. Retford is located east of Sheffield, west of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lincoln and north-east of Nottingham. The population at the United Kingdom 2021 census, 2021 census was 23,740. It is near North Wheatley. The town is bypassed by the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road. The borough of East Retford was enlarged in 1878 to include Ordsall, Nottinghamshire, Ordsall, West Retford and part of the parish of Clarborough. The East Retford (UK Parliament constituency), East Retford constituency was a noted example of a rotten borough, being effectively controlled by local landowners the Dukes of Newcastle until reformed in the early nineteenth century. Retford and the surrounding area was also a centre of Nonconformist (Protestantism), Nonconformism. Etymology The origins of the town's name are unknown and have been sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
