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.