[2] Heavily in debt, they disbanded in 1931 after their landlords, Cheshunt Cricket Club, raised the rent on their Albury Ride ground.
They finished runners-up (recording their biggest ever win, 11–0 at Royal Ordnance Factory, in the process) and won the League Cup and Herts Charity Shield.
They also reached the third round of the Amateur Cup following a run that included defeating holders Bromley in front of a record crowd of 5,000.
They finished runners-up in their second season under the management of Terry Medwin, the former Welsh international, and were promoted to Division One, also winning the Herts Charity Shield.
[2] The modern club initially played at the Gothic sports ground, before moving to College Road for their second season.
Originally a gravel pit, by the 1930s the site had become the local rubbish tip, but between February and October 1949, it was cleared, levelled and a pitch was laid.
Two Nissen huts were assembled, where the main gates are today, for changing rooms (with no power, telephone line or hot water), leaving the players with a long walk uphill to the pitch.
Drainage problems forced the club to abandon the stadium before the 1949–50 season had ended and move to a new ground on Brookfield Lane.
Chairman Les Noble and vice-chair Frank Davis moved quickly to secure a 21-year lease on the stadium (which was about to be used by a new club, Waltham Cross FC) and spent £2,500 getting bulldozers in to level space for the present stand and Clubhouse (then the changing rooms too) to be built and clearing the banking to make way for a running track around the pitch (which was removed in the 1980s).
A year later the main stand was built by the groundsman Albert Prior, his son Maurice and chairman Frank Davis in their spare time.
In the 2002–03 season, the section of terracing south of the main stand was covered and named in honour of defender Kurtis Townsend, son of then manager Troy Townsend, who had died whilst travelling to an away game the previous season[10] and seats originally from the East Stand at Stamford Bridge were installed on the covered terrace.
[1] Cheshunt have had a groundshare agreement with Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division club FC Romania since 2011.
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