A map of the highest ranked Rugby clubs in each historic county based on their position within the English |Rugby pyramid at the end of the 2024-25 season. This map uses the Historic Counties Standard to determine the location of each club.

by hwykes1

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  1. **Bedfordshire** – Bedford Blues
    **Berkshire** – Rams
    **Buckinghamshire** – Amersham & Chiltern
    **Cambridgeshire** – Cambridge
    **Cheshire** – Caldy
    **Cornwall** – Cornish Pirates
    **Cumberland** – Penrith
    **Derbyshire** – Sheffield
    **Devon** – Exeter Chiefs
    **Dorset** – Wimborne
    **Durham** – Darlington Mowden Park
    **Essex** – Colchester
    **Gloucestershire** – Gloucester
    **Hampshire** – Havant
    **Herefordshire** – Luctonians
    **Hertfordshire** – Bishop’s Stortford
    **Huntingdonshire** – St Ives (Midlands)
    **Kent** – Blackheath
    **Lancashire** – Sale Sharks
    **Leicestershire** – Leicester Tigers
    **Lincolnshire** – Scunthorpe
    **Middlesex** – Saracens
    **Norfolk** – North Walsham
    **Northamptonshire** – Northampton Saints
    **Northumberland** – Newcastle Falcons
    **Nottinghamshire** – Nottingham
    **Oxfordshire** – Chinnor
    **Rutland** – Oakham
    **Shropshire** – Newport (Salop)
    **Somerset** – Bath
    **Staffordshire** – Stourbridge
    **Suffolk** – Bury St Edmunds
    **Surrey** – London Scottish
    **Sussex** – Worthing
    **Warwickshire** – Coventry
    **Westmorland** – Kendal
    **Wiltshire** – Wootton Basset
    **Worcestershire** – Birmingham Moseley
    **Yorkshire** – Doncaster Knights

  2. Would be more interesting if it was both codes. No way are Donny Knights “better” than Leeds, Bradford, Cas, Wakey, Fev, Huddersfield, Both Hull teams etc.

  3. It slightly annoys me that Sheffield, Sale, and Stourbridge’s rugby clubs aren’t even located in the same county as the town they’re named after.

  5. Sale Sharks are in Greater Manchester (south Manchester) not Lancashire.

  6. Sale is historically Cheshire, I presume this is based on where they play their home games rather than the club’s “home”?

  8. Sale Sharks aren’t Lancs, they’re Salford. Even if they were still in Sale, they’d be in Greater Manchester, not Cheshire.

  9. Well it’s not exactly proper rugby is it…..more toff rugby.

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