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Frome Town vs Mangotsfield United
The best of the action from Saturday's FA Cup match against Mangotsfield United.
Team, Place & City Details
Mangotsfield United F.C.
Mangotsfield United Football Club is a football club based in Mangotsfield, Bristol, England. They are currently members of the Southern League Division One South and play at Cossham Street.
Mangotsfield F.C.
Mangotsfield Football Club was an association football club founded in 1888 in the village of Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire in England. They were a founder member of the Bristol & District League in 1892, where they played for six years before being disbanded in 1898.Several attempts were made to reform the club, but none of these lasted for long, and the village remained without a regular football team until the foundation of Mangotsfield United, which was started by players left without a club when the last incarnation of Mangotsfield F.C. wound up its reserve team in 1951.Mangotsfield were perennial losers, only managing to finish above the bottom two of their division once, when they finished third of seven teams in Division Two of the Western League at the end of the 1896–97 season.
Cinderford Town A.F.C.
Cinderford Town Association Football Club is a football club based in Cinderford in Gloucestershire, England. Affiliated to the Gloucestershire County FA, they are currently members of the Southern League Division One South and play at the Causeway Ground.
Cinderford R.F.C.
Cinderford RFC is a rugby union club based in the town of Cinderford, Gloucestershire. The first team play in the third tier of the English league system following promotion as champions of National League 2 South at the end of the 2017–18 season.
Mangotsfield
Mangotsfield is an urban area and former village in the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, to the north-east of Bristol. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Manegodesfelle, and as Manegodesfeld in 1377.Between 1845 and 1966 the village was served by Mangotsfield railway station.
Mangotsfield railway station
Mangotsfield railway station was a railway station on the Midland Railway route between Bristol and Birmingham, 5.1 miles north-east of Bristol Temple Meads and 82 miles (132 km) from Birmingham New Street, serving what is now the Bristol suburb of Mangotsfield. The station was opened in 1845 by the Bristol and Gloucester Railway.
Mangotsfield and Bath branch line
The Mangotsfield and Bath branch line was a railway line opened by the Midland Railway Company in 1869 to connect Bath to its network at Mangotsfield, on its line between Bristol and Birmingham. It was usually referred to as "the Bath branch" of the Midland Railway.
Mangotsfield School
Mangotsfield School is a secondary school located in Mangotsfield in South Gloucestershire, north of the Kingswood suburb of Bristol.
Emersons Green
Emersons Green is a town and parish in the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire just to the north of Bristol, England. It was developed from farming land during the 1990s and early 21st century, and sits within the historic parish of Mangotsfield.
Cinderford
Cinderford is a small town and civil parish on the eastern fringe of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England, which had a population of 8,494 at the 2011 census.The town came into existence in the 19th century, following the rapid expansion of Cinderford Ironworks and the Forest of Dean Coalfield. Cinderford's origins can be seen in the style and layout of the town, with long rows of identical terraced housing similar to those found in the mining villages of the South Wales Valleys.
Cinderford Canal
The Cinderford Canal was a private canal, opened in about 1797, in Gloucestershire, England, which was used to provide coke and water to Cinderford Ironworks.
Cinderford Ironworks
Cinderford Ironworks, also known as Cinderford Furnace, was a coke-fired blast furnace, built in 1795, just west of Cinderford, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England.
Cinderford New railway station
Cinderford New railway station is a disused railway station that was opened by the former Severn and Wye Railway to serve the mining town of Cinderford. The station was later operated by both the Midland Railway and Great Western Railway after a loop to the station, via Cinderford Junction from the Forest of Dean Branch at Bilson was constructed.