Chippenham Rugby Football Club is an English
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of ru ...
club located in
Chippenham
Chippenham is a market town in northwest Wiltshire, England. It lies northeast of Bath, west of London, and is near the Cotswolds Area of Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon and some form of settlement is ...
,
Wiltshire
Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershir ...
. Chippenham has three senior teams, supported by a full set of mini and junior sides. The first team currently play in
Regional 2 Severn, a level six league in the
English rugby union league system, while the second and third teams play in
Dorset & Wilts 1 North and
Dorset & Wilts 3 North respectively (level 8 and 10).
Honours
1st team:
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Berks/Dorset/Wilts 2 champions: 1987–88
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Southern Counties South
Counties 1 Southern South (formerly known as Southern Counties South) is a level 7 league in the Rugby Football Union South West Division, the rugby union governing body for South West England, part of the Rugby Football Union. When league rug ...
champions: 1998–99
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South West 2 (east v west) promotion play-off winners: 2004–05
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South West 1 East
South West 1 East is an English, level six, rugby union league in south and south-west England; mainly Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucester, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire. Originally a sing ...
champions (2): 2007–08, 2014–15
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Tribute South West Division 1 West champions: 2010–11
2nd team:
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Dorset & Wilts 1 North champions (2): 2011–12, 2012–13
External links
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Chippenham
Rugby union teams in England
Rugby clubs established in 1898
1898 establishments in England
Rugby union in Wiltshire
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