Olney Rugby Football Club is an amateur club playing Rugby Football Union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

. The club was formed in 1877

1877 in sports

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 in the market town of Olney, near Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes , sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes...

. Olney are famous for being the only Rugby Club in England to play in a first choice strip of Cerise and French Grey.

They have recently won promotion from Southern Counties North and will start the 2008/2009 season in South West 2 East

Olney Rugby Football Club is the most powerful club side in the Bedford, Milton Keynes, Northampton. It has an under-7, mini, junior, senior and ladies section.