Sports Centre

Ellesmere College Sports Centre offers a wide range of sporting and recreational facilities for both competitive and fitness related activities.

While for part of the day during term time the centre provides for the needs of the school's pupils, it is open to members every morning and evening, and all day during school holidays.

Sports facilities
Ellesmere enjoys some of the best schools sport facilities in the country.  The magnificent grounds provide the setting for developing ones sporting abilities and there is no shortage of opportunities available.  Indeed it is this positive environment that has enabled Ellesmere to experience some outstanding success in the sporting arena.

The environment provided for the elite performer alongside the recreational player includes:

  • 1 state of the art gymnasium
  • 2 squash courts
  • Indoor pool
  • Fully equipped sporthall
  • 4 badminton courts
  • Volleyball court
  • Indoor tennis court
  • Indoor hockey
  • Indoor netball court
  • Cricket pavilion
  • Gym/dance studio with music system
  • Cross country course
  • Outdoor shooting range
  • Indoor shooting range
  • 6 netball courts (floodlit)
  • 6 tennis courts (floodlit)
  • Sailing lake
  • All Weather Hockey Pitch
  • 7 football pitches
  • 4 5-a-side pitches
  • 7 rugby pitches
  • 4 floodlit training areas
  • 3 cricket squares
  • 6 all weather cricket nets
  • 12 grass nets
  • 4 indoor cricket nets
  • 9 hole golf course
  • Grass athletics track jump and throw areas.
  • Access to indoor tennis centre
  • 2 sports dedicated classrooms with full AV facilities


Married with this access to video analysis, psychology, physiotherapy, physiology, private health care support and links with professional clubs, Ellesmere is a sporting hotbed.