Great Marlow School Boat Club

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Great Marlow School Boat Club
Great Marlow School Blade.svg
LocationLongridge, Quarry Wood Road, (until December 2025) Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England
Coordinates 51°33′52″N0°45′39″W / 51.564311°N 0.760862°W / 51.564311; -0.760862
Foundedreformed 2008
Affiliations British Rowing (boat code GMS)
Website www.gmsboatclub.co.uk

Great Marlow School Boat Club (GMSBC) is a rowing club on the River Thames, based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. [1] The club belongs to Great Marlow School.

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History

The club was reformed in 2008 following several lottery grants [2] and initially shared the facilites of the Marlow Rowing Club. [3]

The following year in 2009 the club moved out of the Marlow RC boathouse and moved to Longridge Activity Centre on Quarry Wood Lane, [3] where it shares the facilities with Sir William Borlase's Grammar School Boat Club. [4]

The facilites for rowing at the Longridge Outdoor Activity Centre were limited with boats being operated from outdoor racks, which led to a 20 year search at 15 locations before an application for a new boathouse was submitted at Gossmore Lane on the opposite side of the river. The facility called the Marlow and District Schools Boathouse is due to open in December 2025. [5] [6] The construction met with some controversy over using Green belt land to build the boathouse. [7]

Honours

British champions

YearWinning crew/s
1978 Men J16 4+ [8]
1981 Men J16 2-, Men J16 4- [9]
1983 Women J18 1x [10]
2012 Open J16 4- [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Club details". British Rowing.
  2. ↑ "Club History". Great Marlow School Boat Club.
  3. 1 2 "Rowing at GMS". Great Marlow School. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "Club history". Great Marlow School.
  5. ↑ "New Marlow schools boathouse project launches urgent appeal for funds". Brtish Rowing. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  6. ↑ "Marlow schools reveal plans for 'socially inclusive' boathouse". Bucks Free Press. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "Boathouse application – approved!". Save Marlow's Greenbelt. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Railton, Jim. "Rowing." Times, 17 July 1978, p. 11". Times Digital Archives.
  9. ↑ "Railton, Jim. "Rowing." Times, 20 July 1981, p. 14". Times Digital Archives.
  10. ↑ "Railton, Jim. "Problems for British selectors." Times, 18 July 1983, p. 19". Times Digital Archives.
  11. ↑ "2012 results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.


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