Every football club has its own nickname. For Leeds United it’s The Whites, for Bradford City it’s The Bantams.

We’re proud to confirm FC Farsley’s nickname will be ‘The Weavers’.

As a club we’ve given this a lot of thought. We wanted something that reflected the community’s rich heritage and identity and that tapped into the village’s historic textile connections, which still run deeply to this day.

FC Farsley Sports Club is all about celebrating community, people and being part of village life, ‘weaving’ together people of all ages as part of our men’s, women’s and junior development sides, as well as people using our facilities at Throstle Nest. We’re very much part of the fabric of our community.

You’ll also remember that earlier this week we announced the new name of clubhouse will be The Weavers Bar.

Farsley itself was once one of the most important cloth producers in the Leeds area.

The mills are still here today. The Sunny Bank Mills complex – where Emmerdale used to be filmed – was founded by a group of local clothiers who built a woollen scribbling and fulling mill, known as The Farsley Club Mill. A famous family name – John Gaunt – was appointed as one of the trustees to run the mill.

In the 1950s and 60s Sunny Bank had a reputation as one of the finest cloth producers in the world.

Today it is leading the regeneration of the village, providing creative space for business, arts and heritage – it’s also home to BBC2’s The Great British Sewing Bee and has a Museum and Archive which is is a unique resource representing over 180 years of cloth.

And not far from Throstle Nest at Stanningley Bottom is AW Hainsworth. Now in its 242nd year, AW Hainsworth are renowned for creating fabric with Royal connections, manufacturing the iconic scarlet cloth worn by the guards at Buckingham Palace, and holding a Royal Warrant for supplying interior fabrics to Windsor family palaces.

The village is also known as the birthplace of Samuel Marsden who, having emigrated to Australia as a chaplain, introduced the first Australian wool to England in 1808. Marsden was born in the Bagley district of Farsley in 1764 but as a small boy moved to Turners Fold adjoining Farsley Town Street.

The property was demolished in 1923 and in 1934 a monument, appropriately incorporating a sheep’s head, was erected on the site. It is set in a small community garden now affectionately known as Sheepshead Park.