This site is dedicated to the English County Championship. In the old amateur days the County Championship was the main competitive event in the English rugby calendar. My home county, Gloucestershire, had more success than most. In the 11 years from 1970 to 1980 they reached 9 finals, winning four and losing five. I was lucky enough to see all but one of them, including the glorious day in March 1972 when they won the championship for the first time in 35 years, beating another of the great names, Warwickshire at Coventry.

On many occasions I searched the web for information on those memorable matches but the best I could find was a list of winners from 1960 onwards. No scores of the finals, nor even the names of the runners up. Another of the proudest counties, Cornwall has a number of web sites dedicated to its rugby heritage. Their victorious years of 1908 and 1991 as well as their loss in the final of 1969 are well documented. But I could find no record of their epic and ultimately tragic semi-final struggle with Surrey in 1967 which lasted over three matches. (Tragic for Cornwall as Surrey won!). I still remember the frst replay at Richmond as one of the greatest rugby matches I have ever seen, ending in a 14 all draw thanks to a last minute touch-line conversion by the late Roger Hosen.  

The object of this site is to provide a record of the County Championship. The first stage will be a list of all county championship finals from 1930 to the present day with dates, scores and ground where played. I also intend to display a number of historic rugby programmes.  

Feedback is welcome. From additional research of old rugby programmes I have at last ascertained the scores of the two final games in 1947 between Lancashire and Gloucestershire, the first drawn at Blundellsands 8 - 8, the replay at Kingsholm a victory for Lancashire by 14 - 3.

As the site progresses I hope to be able to add semi-final scores and perhaps even group matches.