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London 1 North
London 1 North was an English level 6, rugby union league for clubs in London and the south-east of England including sides from Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, north Greater London, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk. When this division began in 1987 it was known as London 2 North, changing to its final name ahead of the 2009–10 season. The fourteen teams played home and away matches from September through to April. The first placed team in the league won promotion to London & South East Premier while the league runner-up played the second placed team from London 1 South in a play-off for promotion. Relegated teams dropped to either London 2 North East or London 2 North West depending on the location of the club. The Rugby Football Union reorganised the level six leagues for season 2022–23, with an increase from eight to twelve leagues, and a reduction of the teams in each from fourteen to twelve. The teams in this league were transferred to either Regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an Rugby ball, oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped Goal (sports)#Structure, goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people regardless of gender, age or size. In 2023, there were more than 10 million people playing worldwide, of whom 8.4 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London 2 North East
Counties 1 Eastern Counties (formerly London 2 North East) is an English level 7 Rugby Union League. When this division began in 1987 it was known as London 3 North East, changing to its current name ahead of the 2009–10 season. Following the RFU's Adult Competition Review, from season 2022-23 it adopted its current name Counties 1 Eastern Counties. Promoted teams move up to Regional 2 Anglia whilst relegated teams go to Counties 2 Eastern Counties. Participating Clubs 2025-26 Departing were Norwich promoted to Regional 2 Anglia while Cantabrigian (12th) and Diss (11th) were relegated to Counties 2 Eastern Counties. Participating Clubs 2024-25 Departing were Wymondham, promoted to Regional 2 Anglia while Wisbeach (12th) West Norfolk (11th) and Ipswich Y.M. (10th) were relegated to Counties 2 Eastern Counties. Participating Clubs 2023-24 Departing were Saffron Walden and Holt, promoted to Regional 2 Anglia as champions and runners-up respect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chingford RFC
Chingford Rugby Club is an English rugby union club based in Chingford, London. The first XV team currently plays in London 1 North following their relegation from London & South East Premier at the end of the 2018–19 season. The club has had many ties with players playing for notable counties/clubs such as Eastern Counties, Essex, Saracens, London Irish, Northampton Saints, England U21's and Brive. History The club was founded in 1928 by members of Chingford congregational church the club was originally known as “Chingford Guild Rugby Club”. A ground was loaned by a local milkman named Mr Soper adjacent to the reservoirs at Lee Valley. Members of the club then built a changing building with two changing rooms, plunge bath and water heating stove. A double Decker bus was acquired for the spectators and the players washed in a local piggery. In 1930, the club was renamed Chingford Rugby Club and in 1945 the club was reformed using an old army hut. The original building had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brentwood, Essex
Brentwood is a town in Essex, England, in the London metropolitan area, London commuter belt 20 miles (30 km) north-east of Charing Cross and close to the M25 motorway. The population of the built-up area was 55,340 in 2021. Brentwood is a town with a shopping area along the High Street, a Roman road which became one of the main roads between London and East Anglia. Beyond the town centre are residential developments surrounded by open countryside and woodland; some of this countryside lies within only a few hundred yards of the town centre. Brentwood Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood. Since 1978, Brentwood has been Twin towns and sister cities, twinned with Roth, Bavaria, Roth in Germany and with Montbazon in France since 1994. It also has a relationship with Brentwood, Tennessee in the United States. History Etymology The name was assumed by some in the 1700s to derive from a corruption of the words 'burnt' and 'wood', with the name Burntwoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brentwood RFC
Brentwood Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union club based in Brentwood, Essex. The first XV team currently plays in Regional 2 Anglia, having been relegated from London & South East Premier at the end of the 2018–19 season. Honours *London 3 North East champions: 1992–93 *Essex Senior Cup winners: 2003 * London 3 (north-east v north-west) promotion play-off winner: 2008–09 *London 1 North London 1 North was an English level 6, rugby union league for clubs in London and the south-east of England including sides from Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, north Greater London, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk. When ... champions 2017–18 See also * Essex RFU Notes References Rugby union clubs in Essex Sport in Brentwood, Essex {{england-rugbyunion-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belsize Park
Belsize Park is a residential area of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, in the Inner London, inner North West London, north-west of London, England. The residential streets are lined with Georgian and Victorian villas and mews houses. Some nearby localities are Hampstead village to the north and west, Camden Town to the south-east and Primrose Hill to the south. There are restaurants, pubs, cafés, and independent boutiques in Belsize Village, and on Haverstock Hill and England's Lane. Hampstead Heath is close by, and Primrose Hill park is a five-minute walk from England's Lane. Belsize Park is in Hampstead and Highgate (UK Parliament constituency), the Hampstead and Highgate constituency whose present Member of Parliament, MP is Tulip Siddiq. History The name is derived from French ''bel assis'' meaning "well situated". The area has many thoroughfares bearing its name: Belsize Avenue, Belsize Court, Belsize Crescent, Belsize Gardens, Belsize Grove, Belsize Lane, Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regent's Park
Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. It occupies in north-west Inner London, administratively split between the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden, Borough of Camden (and historically between Marylebone and St Pancras, London, Saint Pancras parishes). In addition to its large central parkland and ornamental lake, it contains various structures and organizations both public and private, generally on its periphery, including Regent's University London, Regent's University and London Zoo. What is now Regent's Park came into possession of the Crown land, Crown upon the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1500s, and was used for hunting and tenant farming. In the 1810s, the George IV, Prince Regent proposed turning it into a pleasure garden. The park was designed by John Nash (architect), John Nash and James Burton (property developer), James and Decimus Burton. Its construction was financed privately by James Burton af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belsize Park RFC
Belsize Park Rugby Club is a rugby union club based in Central London, England. BPRC have five senior men's, two senior women's and one veteran men's teams. Home matches are played in Regent's Park. The men's 1st XV previously played in London 1 North – a league at tier 6 of the English rugby union system – but following recent England Rugby adult male 'Future Competition Structure' changes, from the 2022–23 season the men's 1st team play in Regional 2 Thames. History The original Belsize Park FC was founded in 1870 and was one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union. The club had folded by 1880. Current Belsize Park Rugby Club have five regular men's, two women's and one men's vets sides. The men's 1st XV play in the newly launched RFU level 6 Regional 2 Thames division, while the men's 2nd, 3rd, 4th and Bulls (5th) XVs compete in the Middlesex merit leagues with the 2nd XV winning the Premier league most seasons. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amersham
Amersham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, south-east of Aylesbury and north-east of High Wycombe. Amersham is part of the London commuter belt. There are two distinct areas: * Old Amersham, set in the valley of the River Misbourne, containing the 13th-century parish church of St Mary's Church, Old Amersham, St. Mary's and several old pubs and coaching inns * Amersham-on-the-Hill, which grew in the early 20th century around Amersham station, which was served by the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan line) and the Great Central Railway. Geography Old Amersham occupies the valley floor of the River Misbourne. This is a chalk stream which dries up periodically. The river occupies a valley much larger than it is possible for a river the size of the present River Misbourne to cut, which makes it a misfit stream. The valley floor is at around Ordnance Datum, OD, and the valley top is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amersham And Chiltern Rugby Football Club
Amersham and Chiltern RFC is an English rugby union team located in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. Founded as Chiltern Wanderers in 1924, the club changed their name to Amersham and Chiltern RFC in 1992. They are member's of Buckinghamshire Rugby Football Union. They currently play in Regional 1 South East following their promotion from Regional 2 Thames in season 2023–24. The 2nd XV play in Counties 2 Berks, Bucks & Oxon North & the 3rd XV play in Herts Middlesex Merit Table 5. The club colours are claret and white. History Chiltern Rugby Club was formed on 20 December 1924 when a meeting was called to the house of Eric Redfern, "By The Way", Clifton Road, Chesham Bois. It was to serve the expanding unities of Amersham and Chesham. The first game was played against Berkhamsted School Old Boys XV on Boxing Day, 26 December 1924. The first home grounds were a site behind the Pineapple Public House in White Lion Road, Amersham Common together with a field in Cokes Lane, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional 2 East Midlands
Regional 2 Midlands East is an English level 6 rugby union regional league for rugby clubs in the eastern region of the Midlands, including sides from Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and occasionally Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire. When this division began in 1987 it was known as Midlands 2 East, and has been restructured several times, most notably as a single division known as Midlands 2 between 1992 and 2000, and Midlands 1 East before regionalising again to its present format with the new name of Regional 2 Midlands East as part of England Rugby's Future Competition Structure change at the start of the 2022–23 season. Lutterworth are the 2024-25 champions. Structure and format The twelve teams play home and away matches from September through to April, making a total of twenty-two matches each. The results of the matches contribute points to the league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional 2 Thames
Regional 2 Thames is an English level 6 rugby union regional league for rugby clubs in London and the south-east of England including sides from Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Greater London, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Surrey. It was created following the 2022 Adult Competition Review by the Rugby Football Union (RFU). London Scottish Lions are the 2024-25 champions. Structure and format The twelve teams play home and away matches from September through to April, making a total of twenty-two matches each. The results of the matches contribute points to the league as follows: * 4 points are awarded for a win * 2 points are awarded for a draw * 0 points are awarded for a loss, however * 1 losing (bonus) point is awarded to a team that loses a match by 7 points or fewer * 1 additional (bonus) point is awarded to a team scoring 4 tries or more in a match There is one automatic promotion place and two relegation places. The first-placed team at the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
