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The next away match<br />
Saturday 10th December 2016: Dorking Wanderers<br />
Ground address: Westhumble Community Ground, London<br />
Road, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6AD<br />
Directions:<br />
By Car:- -<br />
Leave M25 at jcn 9 of the M25 signpost Leatherhead / Dorking.<br />
At second roundabout take A24 to Dorking. The ground<br />
is<br />
directly off the A 24 6 miles from the M25 turn off. However Google Street View seems to suggest<br />
that as the ground entrance is on the London bound side cars will need to travel to the<br />
next roundabout and back! 56 miles, about 1 hr 10 mins<br />
By Train:-<br />
Nearest Stations: Boxhill and West Humble<br />
The AA says that its approximately 82 miles and takes 1Hour and 32 minutes from Sittingbourne<br />
Dorking Wanderers are going great guns this season lying second in the table, two points off<br />
the top spot. They have had a couple hiccups in form of late losing at home to Three Bridges<br />
and then drawing with Ramsgate, but they came storming back on Saturday with a 4-2 victory<br />
at Hastings Utd.<br />
The club was only formed in 1999 and started playing in the Crawley and District Football<br />
League. After their first season in the Crawley league they switched to the West Sussex Football<br />
League and immediately won the Division Four championship. The club made further progress<br />
the following season when they finished as runners-up in Division Three gaining promotion<br />
to Division Two. The club climbed the league ladder again two seasons later in the 2003–<br />
04 campaign when they finished as champions of Division Two. The 2005–06 season saw the<br />
club clinch promotion to the top division of the West Sussex league when they finished third in<br />
Division one. In their second season in the Premier Division the club finished as champions<br />
and gained promotion to Division Three of the Sussex County Football League. The promotion<br />
was made possible by the club moving to their current home of West Humble Playing Field,<br />
during the successful 2006–07 campaign.<br />
The club spent the next four seasons in Division Three of the County League, and gained promotion<br />
as champions at the end of the 2010–11 campaign. ] The next season saw the club finish<br />
third and qualify for promotion to Division One, however the league denied them entry to<br />
the division as their ground was considered not suitable for that division. However the club appealed<br />
against this decision to the F.A., and they overruled the decision after an independent<br />
ground grading visit confirmed that the ground reached the necessary standards for Division<br />
One football.<br />
In 2015, Wanderers were promoted to the Isthmian League Division 1 (South). The club has<br />
become the dominant football club in Dorking and the surrounding areas as their six promotions<br />
in eight years has caused major interest. In March 2016, Wandererers in effect rescued<br />
their local rivals Dorking F.C. from bankruptcy as they created the Dorking Football Alliance.<br />
This means that Dorking F.C. will play at Westhumble next season and that Wanderers will<br />
move to the renovated Meadowbank Stadium in the centre of the town for season 2017/18 after<br />
they proposed £4 million development set to commence on the site.