Green Pond Road Stadium

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Green Pond Road was a stadium in Walthamstow, London. This was Walthamstow Avenue F.C.'s ground for many years until they merged with Leytonstone & Ilford to form Redbridge Forest, a precursor to Dagenham & Redbridge. Leyton Orient also played here for several years^{[citation needed]} under the guise Clapton Orient. The stadium was unusual in that the 3 stands formed a triangle round the pitch so that it looked more like a baseball stadium than any football one^{[citation needed]}. The stadium's record attendance was 21,708^{[citation needed]} for an 1948 Olympics football game. The ground was often simply called 'The (Green) Pond'.