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Wolverhampton & Bilston Athletics Club

Athletics club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ8030457 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wolverhampton & Bilston Athletics Club was formed in 1967 and has its home ground at Aldersley Leisure Village, formally Aldersley Stadium in Aldersley, Wolverhampton, England.

History

In 1924 the Harriers Athletic Club which would formally be called the Wolverhampton Athletics Club was founded. In 1943 the club merged with Penn Harriers to form the Wolverhampton Harriers.

In February 1967 after a local government reorganisation the two local athletic clubs, Wolverhampton Harriers and Bilston Town Athletic Club merged to form the Wolverhampton and Bilston Athletic Club.

The club won the Men's National League Division One from 1975 to 1982 and the Men's National Cup 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1980.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wolverhampton & Bilston Athletics Club” as athletics club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1967, 1924, 1943, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wolverhampton, Bilston and Athletics can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as athletics club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8030457. Authority coordinates are 52.605, -2.150. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1924, 1943 and 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wolverhampton & Bilston Athletics Club” 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.