In the end it was not until October 1886 that Hungerford Town Football Club was founded.

Matches were played on "the downs" (now Hungerford Common). In the early years of the 1900s the Club at this time was on the western edge of the town beyond Smitham Bridge, near The Orchard in Marsh Lane.

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Married v. Single, 1921. The 1920s were years when sport features strongly in the life of Hungerford. Teams and matches were arranged with almost every combination imaginable. This photograph shows the teams taking part in the annual Football Club match between the married and single men. The teams are posed in front of what became the cricket pavilion – which is the old G.W.R. Savernake station re-used! Good classic G.W.R. style. A later cricket pavilion (which burnt down in 1963) was made from re-cycled packing cases that were used to transport the Waco gliders from the U.S.A. during the Second World War.

Hungerford Swifts Football Club, 1908-9

Ramsbury Burdett Football Club,
winners of the Hungerford and District Cup, 1912-13.
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(Kindly sent by Kathy Chamberlain,
St Andrews, Fife, 2011)