Maine Road F.C. are an English football club, based in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. They currently play in the North West Counties Football League Premier Division and are members of the Manchester Football Association. They play their home games at Brantingham Road.
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pushed off for granite
quarries on the islands.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
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