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 The Deva Staduim, home to fifth division Chester. Opened in 1992. Capacity 6000. I don't know what its highest attendance to date has been. "Deva" is the Roman name for Chester. Irrelevantly, "stadium" is the Roman name for a distance of about 180 metres. The list which I saw of Welsh clubs playing in the English league didn't include Chester. It's literally a borderline case though because although the front door, most of the offices and the place where I'm currently standing are in England, the enitre pitch and most of the seats are in Wales. The current club, called Chester (or Chester FC) was founded in 2010 after the previous club, Chester City, went bust. Whenever that kind of thing happens, the new club has to be legally a different entity to the old club and it normally has to enter the league several divisions below where the old club ended but it can inherit the history of the old club. There was a good example of that in Scotland a few years ago, where Rangers, one of the top teams, had to cease business and the replacement team had to start in the Scottish fourth division. In my diagrams, where one club gets replaced by a spiritual successor, I have used dotted or dashed lines to distinguish the different incarnations. Where a club simply changes its name, my line should continue without changing style. Unfortunately, I've just noticed that in this particular example, the algorithm has got confused by the fact that the old club, Chester City, was known as just Chester, like the current club, until 1983.  UTC Time: 10:52, Monday 10 August 2015 Local Time: 11:52, Monday 10 August 2015 Estimate of longitude: 2° 55' 17.83" W = -2.921620° Estimate of latitude: 53° 11' 21.77" N = 53.189380° Possible error on position estimate: 100 metres | |