Barnstaple Town F.C. following season saw the club finish as runners-up in the Premier Division, earning promotion to Division One South & West of the Southern League. The club play their home games at Mill Road in Barnstaple. It has a capacity of 5,000, of which 250 is seated and 1,000 covered. Barnstaple Town F.C. Barnstaple Town Football Club is a football club based in Barnstaple, Devon, England. They are currently members of Division One South & West of the Southern League and play at Mill Road. The club was established in 1904 as Pilton Yeo Vale, and were founder members of the
Barnstaple of the present town. Pilton is recorded in the Burghal Hidage (c. 917) as a burh founded by Alfred the Great, and it may have been the site of a Viking attack in 893, but by the later 10th century Barnstaple had taken over its role of local defence. Barnstaple had its own mint before the Norman Conquest. The large feudal barony of Barnstaple had its caput at Barnstaple Castle. It was granted by William the Conqueror to Geoffrey de Montbray, who is recorded as its holder in Domesday Book. The barony escheated to the crown in 1095 after Montbray