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Heaton Moor RUFC

rugby team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5694423 ↗
Source-derived summary

Heaton Moor RUFC is a Rugby union football club, based in Stockport in the North West of England. The club was formed in 1899. The home ground of Heaton Moor is The Heaton's Sports Club situated on Green Lane, in the village of Heaton Moor, Stockport. The club plays in the ADM Lancashire Rugby Union Leagues, Championship Division.

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“Heaton Moor RUFC” enters the record as rugby team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Heaton, Moor and RUFC can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1899—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Heaton, Moor and RUFC.
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“Heaton Moor RUFC” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Heaton, Moor and RUFC provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5694423. The first chronological checks are 1899.

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This entry incorporates text from “Heaton Moor RUFC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.