Aldershot Town F.C.

Aldershot Town Football Club is an English association football club based in Aldershot, Hampshire. The club participates in the National League, the fifth tier of English football. The club was founded in the spring of 1992 after the closure of debt-ridden Fourth Division club Aldershot F.C..

Aldershot Town play at the Recreation Ground in Aldershot. They competed in Football League Two from 2008 to 2013 but were relegated from the Football League at the end of the 2012–13 season. Aldershot Town entered administration on 2 May 2013.

History

Formation and the Isthmian years

In March 1992, the town of Aldershot was without a football club after Aldershot F.C. became the first Football League team to fold during the football season since Accrington Stanley in 1962. Aldershot Town was born later the same year, and began life competing in the Isthmian League Division Three. Despite Aldershot Town playing five divisions lower than the Football League, the attendance for their first competitive fixture was higher than the old team's last home tie. Ten successive victories were recorded under the guidance of former player Steve Wignall and Aldershot won the championship by an 18-point margin.

Aldershot

Coordinates: 51°14′53″N 0°45′29″W / 51.248°N 0.758°W / 51.248; -0.758

Aldershot (/ˈɔːldərʃɒt/) is a town in the English county of Hampshire, located on heathland about 37 mi (60 km) southwest of London. The town is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council. The town has a population of 36,321, while the Aldershot Urban Area, a loose conurbation (which also includes other towns such as Camberley, Farnborough, and Farnham) has a population of 243,344, making it the thirtieth-largest urban area in the UK.

Aldershot is known as the "Home of the British Army", a connection which led to its rapid growth from a small village to a Victorian town. Aldershot is twinned with Sulechów in Poland, Meudon in France and Oberursel in Germany.

History

The name may have derived from alder trees found in the area (from the Old English 'alder-holt' meaning copse of alder trees). Aldershot was included as part of the Hundred of Crondall referred to in the Domesday Book of 1086. John Norden's map of Hampshire, published in the 1607 edition of William Camden's Britannia, indicates that Aldershot was a market town.

Aldershot (disambiguation)

Aldershot is a town in Hampshire, England.

Aldershot may also refer to:

See also

Aldershot GO Station

Aldershot GO Station is a railway station and bus station used by Via Rail and GO Transit, located at Highway 403 and Waterdown Road in the Aldershot community of Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

Services

This is the western terminus of the Lakeshore West line train service in off-peak hours, with buses continuing on from here to Hamilton GO Centre and the McMaster University Bus Terminal. Eight trains (four in each direction) continue on to Hamilton during peak hours. Some rush-hour trains terminate at Burlington GO Station and GO buses connecting to these trips stop here as well.

Aldershot serves Burlington and Hamilton on Via Rail's Quebec City-Windsor Corridor routes between Toronto and Windsor, and the joint Via-Amtrak Maple Leaf train, connecting Toronto and New York through Niagara Falls.

Burlington Transit bus route 1 Plains operates through this station, between Burlington GO Station and downtown Hamilton.Hamilton Street Railway bus route 18 Waterdown provides peak hour, weekday service to Waterdown.