Wealdstone

Grosvenor Vale holds 4,085 people behind a ground the club has called home only since 2008, after a wander through Vicarage Road, The Warren, White Lion and Chestnut Avenue that followed Wealdstone's eviction from Lower Mead. That 1991 exit, forced by financial trouble and the loss of the old ground, dropped the club down the pyramid and set the terms for the two decades that followed.

The name traces back further than 1899, through The Oaks and a run as Wealdstone Albion and Wealdstone Rovers, before the club settled into the Second Division of the Willesden and District League that year. Royal blue and white has stayed the shirt ever since, worn in checks or stripes depending on the season.

The high point sits in 1984-85, when Wealdstone won the FA Trophy, beating Boston United 2-1, and took the Alliance Premier League title in the same campaign — the first double of its kind in non-league football, delivered under manager Brian Hall. Promotion to the Football League never followed; the ground did not meet the requirements. Gordon Bartlett took a longer road to relevance, spending 22 years in charge and steering the club back toward stability into the 2000s, a spell that outlasted most of what came before or after it.

Vinnie Jones started here before Crystal Palace and Wales came calling, and Jermaine Beckford left for Leeds United in 2006 on his way to Everton and the Jamaica national team. Harold Smith got there first, moving to Notts County in 1930 as the club's first player to turn professional.

National League South champions in 2019 sent Wealdstone back up to the National League, closing a gap that had opened decades earlier. Grosvenor Vale is where that current side plays out its home games now, on a ground the club reached only after losing the one it had.