Burton Park Wanderers Football Club is a

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club based in

Burton Latimer Burton Latimer is a town in North Northamptonshire, England, approximately southeast of Kettering and 4.5 miles north of Wellingborough. At the 2021 census, its population was 10,444. History Burton (Latimer) appears in three entries in the ...

Northamptonshire Northamptonshire ( ; abbreviated Northants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshi ...

, England. They are currently members of the and play at Latimer Park.

History

The club was formed in 1961 as Kettering Park Wanderers. They joined Division Two of the

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in 1968, which became Division One in 1972. The club adopted their current name in 1973. After finishing second-from-bottom of Division One in 1977–78, they were relegated to Division Two. However, the division was disbanded two years later and they were returned to Division One. In 1988–89 they were Division One runners-up, earning promotion to the Premier Division. Two seasons later they finished bottom of the Premier Division and were relegated back to Division One. Burton Park Wanderers remained in Division One for the next thirty seasons, only finishing in the top half on four occasions and finishing bottom of the division in 1988–99, for five consecutive seasons between 2001–02 and 2005–06, and again in

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, 2015–16 and 2016–17. At the end of the 2020–21 season they were transferred to Division One of the

Spartan South Midlands League The Spartan South Midlands Football League is an English football league covering Hertfordshire, northwest Greater London, central Buckinghamshire and southern Bedfordshire. It is a feeder to the Southern Football League or the Isthmian League, ...

. They finished bottom of Division One in 2023–24 and were relegated to the Premier Division of the Northants Combination.

Ground

The club initially played at the Rockingham Road Pleasure Park in

Kettering Kettering is a market town, market and industrial town, industrial town in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England, west of Cambridge, England, Cambridge, southwest of Peterborough, southeast of Leicester and north- ...

before moving to the Pytchley Road pitches elsewhere in the town in the late 1960s.Preview: Burton Park Wanderers
Rothwell Corinthians F.C.Kettering historian seeks images of former football ground for new book
Northants Telegraph, 3 March 2015 They relocated to Latimer Park in

in 1973. File:Burton Park Wanderers fc main stand.jpg, Main stand File:Burton Park Wanderers fc morrisons end covered end walkway.jpg, Morrisons End File:Burton Park Wanderers fc station road covered terrace .jpg, Station road covered terrace File:Burton Park Wanderers fc temporary pitch side covered seating stand .jpg, Temporary covered seating stand File:Burton Park Wanderers fc ground entrance and turnstiles.jpg, Ground entrance and turnstiles File:Burton Park Wanderers fc dugout side and media tv gantry .jpg, Dugout side and media TV gantry

Records

*Best

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performance: Extra preliminary round,

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*Best

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performance: Second round, 1974–75,

*Record attendance: 253 vs Rothwell Town, May 1989Mike Williams & Tony Williams (2012) ''Non-League Club Directory 2013'', p646

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