Sports & Recreation Clubs
With a career path that includes greenkeeping, six years self employment and a stint at Glasgow Rangers, Niall Gibb now finds himself working for Fawley Parish Council as Head Groundsman at the quirkily named Gang Warily Recreation and Community Centre
Fawley Parish Council
Go Carefully! F
awley is a village situated in the New Forest on the western shore of the Solent, approximately seven miles south of Southampton. It is the site of an oil refinery, operated
by ExxonMobil, which is the largest facility of its kind in the United Kingdom. Visitors to the area are left in no doubt as to where they are as the refinery’s towering structures dominate the skyline. However, being part of the UK’s newest
National Park does have its rewards and the area is much more than this proverbial blot on the landscape ... and seascape. Fawley Parish Council is the largest Parish
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Council in the New Forest, with fifteen Councillors and around thirty-six permanent staff, and boasts some impressive facilities and amenities. The Parish is made up of the villages of Fawley, Blackfield, Calshot, Langley, Holbury and Hardley, with a total population of around 15,000. Providing sporting facilities for this
community is Gang Warily Recreation and Community Centre. Its somewhat bizarre and unusual name dates back to a historic confrontation between the English and the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, where the fast thinking ingenuity of the Scottish troops covered the ground with four pointed spikes (caltrops), which crippled the advancing English cavalry, consequently leading to a Scottish victory. Many years later, the Drummond Clan, who played a pivotal role in the battle, were granted permission to use the caltrops symbol in their coat of arms. The phrase ‘Gang Warily’ was included which, from Latin translation literally means ‘Go Carefully’ and, although seemingly a tiding for a safe journey, is actually a warning to those outside of the clan. It was not until 1772, when the Drummond Clan moved to Hampshire and acquired large areas of land in Southampton that part of this land was named ‘Gang
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