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Barnstaple Town F.C.

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The club have played their home games at Mill Road in Barnstaple since the late 1930s. It has a capacity of 5,000, of which 250 is seated and 1,000 covered. The record attendance at Mill Road was set in the 1954–55 season when a crowd of 6,200 watched an FA Cup first round tie against
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on 1 October; the visitors won 4–2 with several hundred in attendance. However, that was to be the only defeat all season in the league and club went on to win the inaugural league title. At the end of the season they adopted their current name.
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they won their second Western League title, and finished as runners-up in the following two seasons. After finishing second-from bottom in
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saw the club finish as runners-up in the Premier Division, earning promotion to Division One South & West of the Southern League. In
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they finished bottom of Division One South, resulting in relegation back to the Premier Division of the Western League. In
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the club finished fifth in the Premier Division and qualified for the promotion play-offs, in which they lost 3–1 to
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The league was reduced to a single division in 1960, and the club reached the FA Cup first round again in
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in front of a record crowd of 6,200. They reached the first round of the FA Cup for a third time in
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After winning a second North Devon league title in 1908–09, they club switched to the
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They remained in the Premier Division until being relegated again at the end of the
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they won Division One, earning promotion back to the Premier Division.
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Barnstaple Town suffer club record Western league defeat to Odd Down
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Record transfer fee received: ÂŁ6,000 from Bristol City for Ian Doyle
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Barnstaple won Division Two, earning promotion to Division One. In
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in the same year. They played in the league's first match, hosting
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on 15 November 1988, with the lights switched on by Villa manager
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Index

Barnstaple Town
Barnstaple Town railway station
Official crest
Barnstaple
Western League
2023–24
Western League
Home colours
Away colours
football
Barnstaple
Devon
Western League
North Devon League
Ilfracombe
Exeter & District League
World War I
Western League
1949–50
1951–52
FA Cup
Folkestone
1952–53
1954–55
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
1959–60
Exeter City
1972–73
Bilston
1979–80

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