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News of the World Darts Championship

Index News of the World Darts Championship

The News of the World Championship was one of the first major organised darts competitions, which began in 1927. [1]

85 relations: Aberystwyth, Alan Evans, Alan Glazier, Alexandra Palace, Alfreton, Ammanford, BDO World Darts Championship, Bermondsey, Bill Lennard, Birmingham, Bobby George, Camberley, Carlton Colville, Chatham, Kent, Cheshire, Chesterfield, Darts, Dave Lee (darts player), Dave Whitcombe, Dennis Priestley, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, England, Eric Bristow, Filton, Frimley Green, Hainault, London, Henley-on-Thames, Ian White (darts player), Ilford, Ipswich, ITV (TV network), John Lowe, Keighley, Kevin Spiolek, Lancashire, Langley Mill, Leg (darts), Leighton Rees, London, Manchester, Marston Moreteyne, Martin Adams, Midsomer Norton, Mike Gregory (darts player), Newcastle-under-Lyme, Newchurch, Isle of Wight, News of the World, North and Middle Littleton, Norton Green, Onllwyn, ..., Par, Cornwall, Parson Drove, Paul Gosling, Peter Evison, Peterborough, Phil Taylor (darts player), Pilsley, North East Derbyshire, Pontefract, Pontllanfraith, Pontypridd, Ramsgate, Rhondda, Rick Ney, Rotherham, Runcorn, Sedbergh, Shoreditch, Sky Sports, Split in darts, Stefan Lord, Stockholm, Swindon, Truro, Villa Park, Wales, Waltham Abbey (town), Wembley, Wembley Arena, Wetherby, Weymouth, Dorset, Worfield, Workington, World War I, World War II, Yorkshire. Expand index (35 more) »

Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth (Mouth of the Ystwyth) is a historic market town, administrative centre, and holiday resort within Ceredigion, West Wales, often colloquially known as Aber.

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Alan Evans

David "Alan" Evans (14 June 1949 – 11 April 1999) was a Welsh professional darts player and former World No. 1 who competed in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Alan Glazier

Alan Glazier (born 21 January 1939 in Hampton, London) is a retired English–American professional darts player who currently in British Darts Organisation tournaments.

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Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace is a Grade II listed entertainment and sports venue in London, located between Muswell Hill and Wood Green.

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Alfreton

Alfreton is a town and civil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire based in the East Midlands, England, adjoining the Bolsover and North East Derbyshire districts.

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Ammanford

Ammanford (Rhydaman) is a town and community in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales, with a population 5,293 according to the Office for National Statistics (2001), increasing to 5,411 at the 2011 census.

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BDO World Darts Championship

The BDO World Darts Championship is a world championship competition in darts, organised by the British Darts Organisation (BDO).

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Bermondsey

Bermondsey is a town in the London Borough of Southwark, England, southeast of Charing Cross.

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Bill Lennard

William Henry Lennard (21 June 1934 – 6 August 1996) was a former English professional darts player from Manchester, England.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Bobby George

Robert Francis "Bobby" George (born 16 December 1945) is an English television presenter and former professional darts player.

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Camberley

Camberley is a town in Surrey, England, southwest of Central London, between the M3 and M4 motorways.

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Carlton Colville

Carlton Colville is an area in the suburbs of Lowestoft, also an electoral ward in the Waveney District of the English county of Suffolk, located south-west of the centre of the town.

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Chatham, Kent

Chatham is one of the Medway towns located within the Medway unitary authority, in North Kent, in South East England.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.

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Darts

Darts is a sport in which small missiles/torpedoes/arrows/darts are thrown at a circular dartboard fixed to a wall.

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Dave Lee (darts player)

Dave Lee (born 28 November 1956) is a retired English former darts player who played for the British Darts Organisation.

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Dave Whitcombe

Dave Whitcombe (born 27 June 1954) is a former English retired professional darts player who won several major tournaments and reached two World Championship Finals.

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Dennis Priestley

Dennis Priestley (born 16 July 1950) is a retired English former professional darts player.

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Earls Court Exhibition Centre

Earls Court Exhibition Centre was an internationally renowned exhibition, conference and events venue in London that originally opened in 1887 and was built in 1937 in its most recent art moderne style exterior.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eric Bristow

Eric John Bristow, (25 April 1957 – 5 April 2018), nicknamed "The Crafty Cockney", was an English professional darts player.

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Filton

Filton is a large suburban town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, north of the City of Bristol and approximately from the city centre.

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Frimley Green

Frimley Green is a suburban village of with ward status in the English county of Surrey, that has lakes in its south-west which border Hampshire and which has the Lakeside Country Club, the national venue for the BDO international darts competition.

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Hainault, London

Hainault is a suburban area in the London Borough of Redbridge in northeast London.

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Henley-on-Thames

Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead and southeast of Oxford, near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Ian White (darts player)

Ian White (born 17 August 1970) is an English professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.

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Ilford

Ilford is a large town in east London, located east of Charing Cross.

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Ipswich

Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, England, located on the estuary of the River Orwell, about north east of London.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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John Lowe

John Lowe (born 21 July 1945) is a former World No. 1 English retired professional darts player who was one of the most skilled and best known darts players during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the United Kingdom.

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Keighley

Keighley is a town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England.

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Kevin Spiolek

Kevin Spiolek (born 5 May 1962 in Cambridge) is a former English professional darts player who played during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Langley Mill

Langley Mill is a small town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England.

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Leg (darts)

A leg is a single game in the sport of darts.

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Leighton Rees

Leighton Thomas Rees (17 January 1940 – 8 June 2003) was the first ever World Professional Darts Champion and former World No. 1 player.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Marston Moreteyne

Marston Moreteyne (or Marston Moretaine) is a large village and civil parish located on the A421 between Bedford and Milton Keynes.

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Martin Adams

Martin Adams (born 4 June 1956) is an English professional darts player.

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Midsomer Norton

Midsomer Norton is a town near the Mendip Hills in Bath & North East Somerset, England, south-west of Bath, north-east of Wells, north-west of Frome, and south-east of Bristol.

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Mike Gregory (darts player)

Mike Seward Gregory (born 16 December 1956 in Bath, Somerset) is a former English professional darts player, who reached the final of the Winmau World Masters twice and also reached the final of the Embassy World Darts Championship in 1992 – losing to Phil Taylor in a match regarded amongst the greatest matches ever played.

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Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme (locally; or Underlem, cf. Burslem, Audlem), is a market town in Staffordshire, England, and is the principal settlement in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

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Newchurch, Isle of Wight

Newchurch is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight.

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News of the World

The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011.

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North and Middle Littleton

North and Middle Littleton is a civil parish located in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England.

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Norton Green

Norton Green is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight.

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Onllwyn

Onllwyn is a small village in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, near Seven Sisters.

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Par, Cornwall

Par (An Porth, meaning creek or harbourHenry Jenner, A Handbook of the Cornish Language: Chiefly in Its Latest Stages, with Some Account of its History and Literature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904 reprinted 2012) is a village and fishing port with a harbour on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Parson Drove

Parson Drove is a village in the Fens, in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Paul Gosling

Paul Gosling (born 7 June 1949) is a retired English former darts player.

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Peter Evison

Peter Evison (born 27 May 1964 in Chiswick) is an English darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments.

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Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 183,631 in 2011.

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Phil Taylor (darts player)

Philip Douglas Taylor (born 13 August 1960) is an English retired professional darts player, nicknamed The Power.

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Pilsley, North East Derbyshire

Pilsley is a rural village and civil parish in Northeast Derbyshire, near Chesterfield.

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Pontefract

Pontefract is a historic market town in West Yorkshire, England, near the A1 (or Great North Road) and the M62 motorway.

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Pontllanfraith

Pontllanfraith (Pontllan-fraith) is a large village located in the Sirhowy Valley in Caerphilly county borough, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

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Pontypridd

Pontypridd often colloquially known as Ponty, is both a community and the county town of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, and is situated 12 miles (19 km) north of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.

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Ramsgate

Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England.

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Rhondda

Rhondda, or the Rhondda Valley (Cwm Rhondda), is a former coal mining valley in Wales, formerly a local government district, consisting of 16 communities built around the River Rhondda.

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Rick Ney

Rick Ney (1961–9 April 2017) was a retired American former professional darts player who competed in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

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Rotherham

Rotherham is a large town in South Yorkshire, England, which together with its conurbation and outlying settlements to the north, south and south-east forms the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, with a recorded population of 257,280 in the 2011 census.

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Runcorn

Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in Halton, Cheshire, England, and in the southeast of the Liverpool City Region.

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Sedbergh

Sedbergh is a small town and civil parish in Cumbria, England.

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Shoreditch

Shoreditch is a district and Church of England parish in the borough of Hackney in Greater London, England and is part of both Central London and the East End.

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Sky Sports

Sky Sports is a group of sports television channels operated by the satellite pay-TV company Sky plc.

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Split in darts

The split in darts refers to an acrimonious dispute between top professional darts players and the game's governing body, the British Darts Organisation (BDO), in 1993.

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Stefan Lord

Stefan Lord (born 4 December 1954) is a retired Swedish born American professional darts player, who competed in British Darts Organisation events, and is one of the country's most successful players.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Swindon

Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.

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Truro

Truro (Truru) is a city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Villa Park

Villa Park is a football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, England, with a seating capacity of 42,682.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Waltham Abbey (town)

Waltham Abbey is a suburban market town in the Epping Forest District of Essex, the metropolitan area of London, and the Greater London Urban Area.

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Wembley

Wembley is an area of northwest London, England, and part of the London Borough of Brent.

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Wembley Arena

Wembley Arena (originally the Empire Pool and, since 1 July 2014, currently known as The SSE Arena, Wembley for sponsorship reasons) is an indoor arena in Wembley, London.

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Wetherby

Wetherby is a market town and civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England.

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Weymouth, Dorset

Weymouth is a seaside town in Dorset, England, situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey on the English Channel coast.

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Worfield

Worfield is a village and civil parish in Shropshire in the West Midlands, England.

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Workington

Workington is an historic industrial town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast of Cumbria, England.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World_Darts_Championship

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