When was Molesey founded?
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Molesey Boat Club is a rowing club between Molesey Lock and Sunbury Lock on the River Thames in England. The club was founded in 1866 where its boathouse stands with hardstanding next to the Thames Path.
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The original Molesey club was established by former Corinthian player James Jenkinson Knox in autumn 1892 under the name Hampton Court and East Molesey Association Football Club. Their first match was played on 24 September against Barnes, with the new club winning 14–5. They were renamed the Molesey Football Club in 1896, but following Knox's death a series of clubs emerged, including Molesey Athletic and Molesey St Mary's, before Molesey St Paul's was formed in 1905. The club absorbed Molesey Football Club in 1911 and became Molesey & St Paul's United, before being renamed Molesey Football Club. The club joined the Surrey Junior League in 1920 and won Section 3 in their first season, going on to win the championship playoffs with a 100 win over Godalming Federation. They also won the Surrey Junior Cup and the Surrey Junior Charity Cup.
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Molesey F.C. is a non-league football team based in West Molesey. The club is currently a member of the Isthmian League and play at the Herds Renault Stadium, Walton Road. The original football club was established by former Corinthian player James Jenkinson Knox in Autumn 1892 under the name Hampton Court and East Molesey Association Football Club. Their first match was played on 24 September 1892 against Barnes, winning 14–5. In 1946 Molesey United and West Molesey Old Boys merged to form Molesey Football Club. The new club joined the Surrey Intermediate League and won the league in their first season.
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The earliest documentary evidence of a settlement in Molesey appears in a 7th-century charter, shortly after Erkenwald founded Chertsey Abbey in AD 666. He secured from Frithwald, sub-king of Surrey, a charter endowing the abbey with much of the surrounding land, including "Muleseg". Etymologists suggest that the town's name is derived from the personal name "Mul" (pronounced Mule) compounded with the Old English word "eg", meaning an island or river meadow – thus Mul's Island. Therefore, Molesey is not, as commonly believed, named after the River Mole that runs through it. The prefixes "East" and "West" did not appear until about the year 1200, before which there was only one parish centred around what is now known as East Molesey. Molesey lay within the Saxon administrative district of Elmbridge hundred.
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In the West Molesey area some houses are the result of over-optimistic development in the 1930s by developer Donald Gordon Howard who eventually went bankrupt trying to sell houses at exceptionally low prices - at £395 some of the cheapest in the London area - while implying a misleading proximity to Hampton Court. The attraction was cheap, low-lying land near the London reservoirs and quite remote from transport links, especially the railway. Speculative land dealing and building go back a long way in the area. Much of East Molesey resulted from large scale land speculation in the 1850s by one Francis Jackson Kent who saw an opportunity to make a killing when the railway arrived at Hampton Court in 1849, quickly snapping up land nearby and selling it on to wealthy individuals or developers who rapidly built on low lying former meadows that had always been flood prone. They naturally remained so until the 1960s when the nearby River Mole was re channeled after a hugely expensive flood. Pictures of the East Molesey area and Hampton Court station environs (on the opposite bank to the Palace) in flood conditions recur in 19th and 20th centuries.
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'Moulsey Hurst' is a very early site of cricket (from 1731) and that tradition is continued to this day by East Molesey Cricket Club, which is located alongside the South bank of the Thames, half a mile from Hampton Court Palace. Founded in 1871, it is a thriving local sports club with a long and glorious history. The Club's first XI play in Surrey Championship Premier Division and there are three other senior Saturday league sides and one senior Sunday league side, regularly competing against other Surrey clubs. The club continues to place special emphasis on generating a love of cricket amongst Molesey's junior residents. The first recorded Leg Before Wicket (LBW) dismissal in first class cricket is said to have been given in a game between an XI of Surrey and a XIII of England at this site in 1795. Prior to this date there had been several attempts to formulate a law that would stop batsmen simply obstructing their wicket with their leg pads to prevent being bowled, a tactic regarded as blatant cheating in many quarters. So in this respect Molesey at least can be said to have stopped a blatant dishonesty. The LBW law has been revised several times since then.
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In 1946 Molesey United and West Molesey Old Boys merged to form Molesey Football Club. The new club joined the Surrey Intermediate League and won the league in their first season. After moving to their new ground on Walton Road, they moved up to the Surrey Senior League in 1953. After winning the Surrey Senior Charity Cup in 1956–57, the club were league champions in 1957–58. In 1959 they transferred to the Spartan League, finishing as runners-up in the league and losing the League Cup final in 1959–60. The club won the League Cup the following season and were losing finalists in 1963–64 and 1971–72. They remained in the Spartan League until joining Division Two of the Athenian League in 1973. In 1977 the club moved leagues again, this time joining Division Two of the Isthmian League.
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As well as the statistics there have been a number of very serious crimes in the Molesey area in the recent timeframe. There were three brutal murders locally in 2016-17 none of which has been solved as of June 2018. A woman was found murdered with a machete or axe according to police in the front garden of her house on Walton Road, Molesey in March 2016 resulting in extensive national publicity and so far unsuccessful appeals. An angler was murdered apparently on the Thames towpath in nearby Walton in July 2016 and found in the Thames. In both cases groups of suspects were questioned locally but released on lengthy police bail. Police launched a third current local murder investigation on 7 December 2017 when a woman reported as previously deliberately run down in the small hours of the morning in a car park on land already mentioned above between Hurst Road, Molesham Way and Walton Road died in hospital. This is only a few hundred yards from the earlier murder site in Walton Road. Following the third murder enquiry in December 2017 police announced that they would step up patrols in the Molesey area "to reassure the community". On 2 June 2018 a man was reported in the "Surrey Comet" as deliberately run down in adjacent Hersham and had surgery for serious injuries in hospital. On 12 July 2018 local press reported that a man in his 20s was in a serious condition in hospital after a "sustained" stabbing outside Sainsbury's Local also on Walton Road, West Molesey. Four men were arrested and one has been charged with attempted murder. Local press also reported a gang of five men hospitalising and robbing a man of his bicycle and other items on the Thames towpath in Molesey on 2 July 2018 with police appealing for help once again. On 27 July 2018 local press reported an attempted armed robbery on a convenience store in Molesey with armed police being involved. No one was arrested. Police "patrolled the area overnight to resassure residents" according to the report.
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The Molesey of the inter-war era originally played at the Royal Oak Ground, before relocating to Hurst Park in 1927, at which point the Royal Oak Ground was taken over by West Molesey Old Boys. The merged club initially played at the Rec, before purchasing Walton Road prior to the 1953–54 season. A clubhouse was built and opened by Stanley Rous in 1960.
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Molesey then moved up to Division One of the Southern Suburban League. However, the cost of travelling led to the club resigning from the league after a single season, dropping into the Kingston & District League. The remainder of the 1920s was a successful period for the club as they won the league and the Teck Cup four times, the Surrey Junior Charity Cup three times in a row between 1926–27 and 1928–29, the Chambers Cup twice and the League Cup once. In the 1933 the club moved up to the Central Division of the Surrey Intermediate League. In 1939 another merger saw Molesey and Molesey Athletic of the Kingston & District League amalgamate to form Molesely United. The new club played in the Kingston & District League, winning it in 1939–40 and 1940–41.
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