Droitwich Spa F.C. Droitwich Spa F.C. Droitwich Spa Football Club is a football club based in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, England. They are currently members of the and played at King George V Fields until 2017. For the 2017/18 season they are ground sharing, and play their home matches at Stourport Swift's Walshes Meadow. They are nicknamed The Saltmen. The club was established in 1985 as a Sunday league club, only moving into Saturday football in 2000, when they joined the Midland Combination. In 2006–07 the club finished third in Division Two, earning promotion to Division One. In 2014 the league merged with the
Droitwich Spa through to the Middle Ages. A salt tax was levied by the king until it was abolished in 1825. A local family named Wintour owned up to 25 salt evaporating pans in the area by the 1600s. Brine rose naturally to the surface at three sites along the River Salwarpe within Vines Park in the centre of Droitwich. Unusually the brine was fully saturated with sodium chloride, and was extremely valuable because it was economic to boil, and the yield of salt was high. Because of its value the brine was divided into shares, one share comprising which produced of