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Recreation grounds and sports facilities
Medway Council's 21 recreation grounds
and a number of parks, together with facilities run by partners
provide for a wide range of outdoor sports:
Medway Council is continually working to secure funding to
improve outdoor sport facilities. It is also currently assessing
the current and future demand for sports facilities and will be
establishing where there is a need for new facilities such as the
new mountain
bike track at Capstone Farm Country Park.
The useful links section at the bottom
of this page provides links to other services and partners
information for clubs and sporting activities in Medway.
Further information on each of the activities and fees and
charges that apply can be found below.
Bowls
The following locations provide outdoor bowling facilities:
- Jacksons Recreation Ground, Rochester (private club); Please
contact the club directly from elana.tapsell@sky.com
- Darnley Road, Strood (private club);
- APCM Recreation Ground, Cliffe (private club);
- Maidstone Road Sports Ground, Chatham (private club).
Cricket
Booking forms are required for both sites.
Medway has two cricket pitches available to hire at:
- APCM Recreation Ground, Cliffe;
- Luton Recreation Ground, Chatham.
These may be hired from 10am-6pm for £70 per game and the cost
includes the use of the pavilions. These must be booked at
least two weeks in advance.
Football
Adult and junior pitches are provided throughout Medway.
There are block-booking agreements in place with the following
leagues:
- Rochester and District Football League;
- Medway Messenger Sunday Football League;
- Medway Messenger Youth League
If you are a member of one of these leagues and you wish to book
a pitch, you need to contact the appropriate league secretary who
will also be able to provide details of charges. Pitches may also
be hired for individual games, subject to availability. Charges
will be dependant on whether the pitch is adult or junior and if
there is a pavilion on site. Charges range from £24.40 to £80 per
game. For further information or to book a pitch,
phone 01634 333333.
There are two different types of pitches that Medway Council use
these are: senior pitches and junior pitches.
Senior pitches
- APCM Recreation Ground, Cliffe
- Barnfield Recreation Ground, Chatham,
- Beechings Crossing Sports Ground , Gillingham
- Beechings Way playing field, Gillingham
- Borstal Recreation Ground, Borstal
- Cliffe Woods recreation ground, Cliffe Woods
- Ferry Meadow, Halling
- Garison sports ground, Gillingham
- Hempstead playing field, Hempstead
- Hook Meadow, Walderslade
- Knights Place, Strood
- Luton Recreation Ground, Luton
- Maidstone Road Sports Ground, Chatham
- Priestfields Recreation Ground, Rochester
- Rainham Recreation Ground, Rainham
- Watling Street Playing field, Gillingham
Junior pitches
- APCM Recreation Ground, Cliffe
- Balfour recreation Ground, Chatham
- Borstal recreation ground, Borstal
- Cozenton Park, Rainham
- Hook Meadow, Walderslade
- Kingsfrith playing field, Hempstead
- Luton Recreation ground, Luton
- Ryetop playing fields, Rainham
Outdoor Gym
A new outdoor gym is open at the Maidstone Road Sports Ground in
Chatham with equipment suitable for adults and children, including
a ski machine, bikes, cross trainers, leg press, leg bench,
shoulder press and basketball hoops, among other pieces.
This is a flagship scheme, offering free, exercise facilities.
It also carries the London 2012 branding, as a legacy of this
year’s Olympic games.
This site is part of the Fitness For All Scheme. There are two
other sites, one at Canal Road, Strood, the other at The Esplanade,
Rochester.
Rugby
There are two sites with facilities for playing rugby at:
- Watling Street, home to Gillingham Anchorians Rugby Club;
- Priestfield Recreation Ground, home to Medway Rugby Club.
Find out
more about Rugby Union in Medway.
Tennis
The four courts below are free to play, there is no need to
book, and they are open from 10am until 30 minutes before dusk or
9pm depending on what is soonest.
- Darnley Road, Strood - two hard courts
- Wigmore Park, Rainham - two hard courts
- Jacksons Recreation Ground, Rochester: four hard
courts
- Maidstone Road Sports Ground, Chatham - four hard
courts
There are also tennis facilities at the
following leisure centres. For prices, visit:
Pitch and
putt
Snodhurst Bottom
This challenging 18-hole pitch and putt course run by Greenspace
Services is located at Snodhurst Bottom, off Walderslade Road. The
course is open from 1 April to 11 October. The opening times are
12noon Monday to Friday and from 9am Saturday and Sunday. The
course opens from 9am in the main summer holiday and closes daily
at dusk.
Gillingham Golf Club
Gillingham Golf club is a flat parkland 18-hole course
5,260 yards in length.
Gillingham Golf Club
Woodlands Road
Gillingham
Kent ME7 2AP
01634 855862 (pro shop)
01634 853017 (office)
Map of Gillingham Golf Club
Rochester and Cobham Park Golf Club
Rochester and Cobham Park Golf Club is an undulating parkland
18-hole course 6,596 yards in length
.
Rochester and Cobham Park Golf Club
Park Pale
Near Rochester
Kent ME2 3UL
01474 823411
Map of Rochester and Cobham Park Golf Club
Deangate Ridge Golf Course
Deangate Ridge Golf Course is
a wooded 18-hole municipal course 6,300 yards in length with an
18-hole pitch and putt course and an 11-bay driving range.
Deangate Ridge Golf Club
Duxcourt Road
Hoo
Rochester
Kent ME3 8RZ
01634 251180
Map of Deangate Ridge Golf Course
Useful links
Medway Council is continually working to secure funding to
improve outdoor sport facilities. It is also currently assessing
the current and future demand for sports facilities and will be
establishing where there is a need for new facilities.
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