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Results and statistics for the '''[[Victorian Football League]] season of [[1898]]'''.
:''For other places called Newbury, see [[Newbury]].''
[[Image:Lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Central Newbury Berkshire.JPG|thumbnail|The Kennet and Avon Canal runs through the heart of Newbury, Berkshire]]
'''Newbury''' is the principal town in the west of the [[county]] of [[Berkshire]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. It is situated on the [[River Kennet]] and the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]], and has a town centre containing many [[seventeenth century]] buildings.
''[[Victorian Football League season 1897|Season 1897]] – '''Season 1898''' – [[Victorian Football League season 1899|Season 1899]]''
== Location ==
''See [[List of Australian Football League premiers]] for a complete list.''
Newbury is situated on the [[River Kennet]], the valley of which forms an important east-west transport route, served by the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]], the [[Great Western Railway]] line from [[London]] to the [[West Country]] and the old [[A4 road]] from London to [[Bristol]]. The latter road has been replaced as a long distance route by the [[M4 motorway]] which here runs parallel five miles to the north.
==[[Grand Final]]==
At Newbury this east-west route is crossed by an equally important north-south route, from the major south coast port of [[Southampton]] to the industrial centres of the [[Midlands]]. Although this route was once served by a railway route, today it is only served by the [[A34 road]], which today bypasses Newbury to the west on an alignment partially using the old rail route (see also 'History' below).
[[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]] defeated [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]] 5.8 (38) to 3.5 (23). (For an explanation of scoring see [[Australian rules football]]).
The town is surrounded on three sides (north, west and south) by the [[North Wessex Downs AONB|North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]], and the [[downland]] to the south rises steeply out of the river valley giving good views.
==Ladder==
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All teams played 14 games during the home and away season, for a total of 56. A sectional round of 3 games per team was then played, for a total of 12. An additional 2 games were played during the finals series.
'''Nearby towns and cities:''' [[Thatcham]], [[Hungerford]], [[Didcot]], [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]], [[Oxford]], [[Basingstoke]], [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winchester]]
===Home and away ladder===
'''Nearby villages:''' [[Speen]], [[Shaw]], [[Donnington, Berkshire|Donnington]], [[Bagnor]], [[Greenham]], [[Wash Common]], [[Cold Ash]], [[Chieveley]], [[Highclere]], [[Burghclere]], [[Hermitage, Berkshire|Hermitage]], [[Kintbury]], [[Kingsclere]], [[Lambourn]]
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'''Nearby places of interest:''' [[Donnington Castle]], [[Sandham Memorial Chapel]], [[Highclere Castle]], [[Watermill Theatre]]
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!align=center|Team
!align=center|Won
!align=center|Lost
!align=center|Draw
!align=center|Points
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!1
|[[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]]
|align=center|11
|align=center|3
|align=center|0
|align=center|44
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!2
|[[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]]
|align=center|10
|align=center|4
|align=center|0
|align=center|40
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!3
|[[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]]
|align=center|10
|align=center|4
|align=center|0
|align=center|40
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!4
|[[Geelong Football Club|Geelong]]
|align=center|9
|align=center|5
|align=center|0
|align=center|36
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|colspan=6|
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!5
|[[South Melbourne Football Club|South Melbourne]]
|align=center|7
|align=center|7
|align=center|0
|align=center|28
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!6
|[[Melbourne Football Club|Melbourne]]
|align=center|5
|align=center|8
|align=center|1
|align=center|22
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!7
|[[Carlton Football Club|Carlton]]
|align=center|3
|align=center|10
|align=center|1
|align=center|14
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!8
|[[St Kilda Football Club|St Kilda]]
|align=center|0
|align=center|14
|align=center|0
|align=center|0
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===Section HistoryA ladder===
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Newbury was founded late in the [[11th century|eleventh century]] and acquired its name through being ''new'' in the sense of postdating the [[Domesday Book|Doomesday Survey]].
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!align=center|Team
!align=center|Won
!align=center|Lost
!align=center|Draw
!align=center|Points
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!1
|[[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]]
|align=center|3
|align=center|0
|align=center|0
|align=center|12
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!2
|[[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]]
|align=center|2
|align=center|1
|align=center|0
|align=center|8
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!3
|[[South Melbourne Football Club|South Melbourne]]
|align=center|1
|align=center|2
|align=center|0
|align=center|4
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!4
|[[Carlton Football Club|Carlton]]
|align=center|0
|align=center|3
|align=center|0
|align=center|0
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===Section B ladder===
Historically, the town's economic foundation was the cloth trade. This is reflected in the person of the [[14th century|fourteenth century]] cloth magnate Jack O'Newbury and the later tale of the Newbury Coat. The latter was the outcome of a bet as to whether a gentleman's suit could be produced by the end of a day from wool taken from the sheep's back earlier the same day.
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Newbury was the site of two [[English Civil War]] battles, the [[First Battle of Newbury]] in [[1643]] and the [[Second Battle of Newbury]] in [[1644]]. The nearby [[Donnington Castle]] was reduced in the aftermath of the second battle.
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!align=center|Team
!align=center|Won
!align=center|Lost
!align=center|Draw
!align=center|Points
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!1
|[[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]]
|align=center|3
|align=center|0
|align=center|0
|align=center|12
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!2
|[[Geelong Football Club|Geelong]]
|align=center|2
|align=center|1
|align=center|0
|align=center|8
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!3
|[[Melbourne Football Club|Melbourne]]
|align=center|1
|align=center|2
|align=center|0
|align=center|4
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!4
|[[St Kilda Football Club|St Kilda]]
|align=center|0
|align=center|3
|align=center|0
|align=center|0
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[[Category:Australian Football League seasons|1898]] [[Category:1898 in sports]]
In [[1795]], local magistrates, meeting nearby, introduced the [[Speenhamland System]] which tied parish welfare payments to the cost of bread.
A large [[airforce]] base was established during the [[Second World War]] at [[Greenham Common]] on the edge of the town. After the war became home to [[US Air Force]] [[bomber]]s in the [[1950]]s, and later in the [[1980]]s one of only two bases in the [[United Kingdom]] equipped with ground-launched [[nuclear]]-armed [[cruise missile]]s (and incidently the longest [[runway]] in the [[United Kingdom]]). It was the site of prolonged and vigorous protests by up to 40,000 [[protester]]s but with the end of the [[Cold War]] the base was closed and most of it restored to [[heathland]].
The town's ___location at the intersection of the routes from [[London]] to [[Bristol]] and from [[Southampton]] to [[Birmingham]] made it, for many years, a transport bottleneck. Since the first bypass opened in [[1963]], the [[A34 road]] and [[M4 motorway]] trunk routes have intersected 5km north of the town, at [[Chieveley]]. The ring road around the town still suffered serious congestion and a new bypass was proposed in [[1981]]. The plans were passed in a closed Parliament session in [[1990]] after a pro forma hearing, a procedure by many considered undemocratic. Despite massive resistance (1), the road was built and finally opened in [[1998]]. This decision was highly controversial and led to a major environmentalist campaign to oppose the development. The confrontation between demonstrators (many veterans of the protest against [[M3 motorway|M3]] extension at [[Twyford Down]]) and contractors was dubbed the ''Third Battle of Newbury'' (following those in the civil war -- see above). More than 800 arrests were made, making it one of the largest environmental conflicts in European history. On [[February 11]] [[1996]], 5,000 people marched along the route in objection to the road (2).
Some of the protesters at Newbury had been living in tree top shacks for up to a year in advance. They became known as ''tree sitters''.
#53% of respondents to a national poll said that "work should stop immediately to allow time for alternatives to be tried" (''Newbury Weekly News'', [[March 10]] [[1996]]).
#''The Guardian'', [[February 12]] [[1996]].
== Economy ==
Today, Newbury town has a population of about 32,000 ([[2004]]), and with adjacent towns such as [[Thatcham]] is the centre of a continuously built up area with an overall population of around 60,000.
Newbury is home to the world headquarters of mobile phone company [[Vodafone]], which is the town's largest employer with 4,000 people, the UK headquarters of the [[pharmaceutical company]] [[Bayer AG]], and [[Newbury Racecourse]], a major course on the British horse-racing calendar.
Newbury benefits from good road communications, being at the junction of the [[M4 motorway]] between [[London]] and [[Bristol]]/[[South Wales]], and the [[A34 road|A34 major road]] between [[Southampton]] and the [[Midlands]]. Rail communications are adequate, with a station on the [[Great Western Railway]] line between [[London]] and the [[West Country]].
== Local government ==
[[Image:Newbury_library.jpg|thumb|The reception area at Newbury Library]]
Newbury is a [[civil parish]] in its own right, with parish council responsibilities undertaken by '''Newbury Town Council'''. Newbury is part of, and the administrative centre of, the district administered by the [[unitary authority]] of [[West Berkshire]].
Newbury Library, which moved to a new building in July [[2000]], provides [[internet]] access and a wide range of other services to its users and members.
Newbury is twinned with [[Braunfels]] in [[Germany]], [[Bagnols-sur-Ceze]] in [[France]] and [[Eeklo]] in [[Belgium]].
== See also ==
*[[List of places in Berkshire]]
*[[List of civil parishes in England]]
*[[List of towns in England]]
==External links==
* [http://www.newbury.gov.uk Newbury Town Council]
* [http://www.cyberspace.org/~ssark/ Third Battle of Newbury in the press]
* [http://www.westberks.gov.uk/westberkshire/leisure.nsf/pages/NewburyL135146.html/ Newbury Library's web page]
* [http://www.newbury.net Local news and discussion site for Newbury]
* [http://www.stbarts.co.uk Web site of St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, a Business and Enterprise College and the oldest school in Berkshire]
[[Category:Towns in Berkshire]]
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