Sir William Borlase's Grammar School Boat Club

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Sir William Borlase's Grammar School Boat Club
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School rowing blade.gif
LocationLongridge, Quarry Wood Road, (until December 2025) Marlow
Coordinates 51°33′52″N0°45′39″W / 51.564311°N 0.760862°W / 51.564311; -0.760862
Founded1921
Affiliations British Rowing
boat code - SWB
Website www.borlaserowing.com

Sir William Borlase's Grammar School Boat Club is a rowing club on the River Thames based at Longridge, Quarry Wood Road, Marlow. [1] The club belongs to the Sir William Borlase's Grammar School. [2]

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History

The club was formed in 1921. [3]

The club shared the boathouse facility at Longridge Activity Centre on Quarry Wood Road, with Great Marlow School Boat Club when the latter moved there in 2009. [4]

From 2012 to 2015, the club won the prestigious Fawley Challenge Cup three times at the Henley Royal Regatta. [5]

The facilities 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. [6] [7] The construction met with some controversy over using Green belt land to build the boathouse. [8]

In 2025, the club won its first national title since 2017, at the 2025 British Rowing Club Championships. [9]

Honours

British champions

YearWinning crew
1984 Men J16 2x [10]
1986 Men J16 4- [11]
1988 Men J16 4+, Men J16 4- [12]
1993 Men J14 4x [13]
1994 Women J15 4x [14]
1995 Men J16 4x
1996 Men 4x [15]
2003 Women J16 2x [16]
2008 Open J18 4x, Women J18 4x, Women J16 2x [17]
2010 OJ16 4-, WJ18 2x, WJ16 1x, WJ16 4x [18]
2011 W4-, OJ14 4x+, WJ18 2x, WJ16 4+ [19]
2012 J18 4+ WJ16 4 + [20]
2014 O4x [21] [22]
2017 OJ15 4x+ [23]
2025 Open J16 2x [9]

Key= O Open, W Women, +coxed, -coxless, x sculls, J junior, 18 16 age group

Henley Royal Regatta

YearRaces won
1984 Visitors' Challenge Cup
2012 Fawley Challenge Cup
2014 Fawley Challenge Cup
2015 Fawley Challenge Cup

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Club details". British Rowing.
  2. ↑ "Sport at Sir William Borlase". Sir William Borlase's Grammar School.
  3. ↑ "Rowing". swbgs. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "Club history". Great Marlow School.
  5. ↑ "results". Henley Royal Regatta.
  6. ↑ "New Marlow schools boathouse project launches urgent appeal for funds". Brtish Rowing. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "Marlow schools reveal plans for 'socially inclusive' boathouse". Bucks Free Press. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Boathouse application – approved!". Save Marlow's Greenbelt. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  9. 1 2 "All results". Row results. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  10. ↑ Railton, Jim (16 July 1984). "Railton, Jim. "Rowing." Times, 16 July 1984, p. 21". The Times. p. 21.
  11. ↑ Railton, Jim (21 July 1986). "Railton, Jim. "Leander take Kingston with a late charge." Times, 21 July 1986, p. 28". The Times. p. 28.
  12. ↑ ""For the Record." Times, 18 July 1988, p. 35". The Times. 18 July 1988. p. 35.
  13. ↑ ""For the Record." Times, 19 July 1993, p. 20". The Times. 19 July 1993. p. 20.
  14. ↑ ""For the Record." Times, 18 July 1994, p. 22". The Times. 18 July 1994. p. 22.
  15. ↑ ""For the Record." Times, 22 July 1996, p. 39". The Times. 22 July 1996. p. 39.
  16. ↑ ""Today's fixtures." Times, 21 July 2003, p. 32". The Times. 21 July 2003. p. 32.
  17. ↑ "2008 archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
  18. ↑ "2010 Championships - Results of Sunday Racing". British Rowing Championships. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
  19. ↑ "Full archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017.
  20. ↑ "British Rowing Champions 2012 declared". British Rowing. 16 July 2012.
  21. ↑ "2014 British Rowing Championships Race Centre". British Rowing. 17 October 2014.
  22. ↑ "All the favourites through in Nottingham". British Rowing. 18 October 2014.
  23. ↑ "2017 British Rowing Junior Championships results" (PDF). British Rowing.
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