- Grundy Hill
Grundy Hill was the former home stadium of Horwich RMI
association football club inHorwich ,Greater Manchester ,England , near the Horwich Leisure Centre.The field had a capacity of approximately 5,000 spectators, with 500 being seated. The terraces were covered on three sides and featured railings.cite web
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title = Horwich R.M.I.
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publisher = All Sports International
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url = http://www.allsportsinternational.co.uk/horwich.html
accessdate = 2007-10-08 ]Grundy Hill's pitch famously sloped both downwards and also side-to-side, and was reputed to have its own
microclimate . "Grundy Hill sloped 16 feet from top diagonal to bottom diagonal and had the contours of corrugated iron, but until the new footballing nanny state prohibited such extreme drops, the ground was Horwich's prime asset."cite web
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title = Football: Bring on the aristocrats
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publisher =The Independent
date = 1998-11-08
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accessdate = 2007-10-08 ] One fan recalled that, as a boy, it was his impression "that the base of the corner flag was level with the top of the crossbar – on the same goal line."cite web
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title = Sloping Pitches
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publisher = Football Ground Guide
date = 2007-04-26
url = http://footballgroundguide.ipbhost.com/lofiversion/index.php/t14117.html
accessdate = 2007-10-08 ] From the stands, fans had views over the field's slopes to theRivington Pike .cite web
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publisher = Football Grounds in Focus
date = 2006-11-02
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accessdate = 2007-10-08 ]In 1994, the football club sold Grundy Hill to a housing developer, and moved several miles south to Leigh's Hilton Park in time for the 1995-1996 season. The move also led to the club renaming itself Leigh RMI after its new home town, although the club has subsequently changed its name to Leigh Genesis F.C.
Reebok Stadium , the current home of the Bolton Wanderers, is located near Horwich, within sight of the old location of Grundy Hill.cite web
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url = http://www.ciderspace.co.uk/ASP/opposition/leighrmi.asp
accessdate = 2007-10-08 ]References
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