Great Marlow School Boat Club

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| Location = Longridge, Quarry Wood Road, (until December 2025) Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England

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| Founded = reformed 2008

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| Website = {{url|https://www.gmsboatclub.co.uk/}}

| Affiliations = British Rowing (boat code GMS)

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Great Marlow School Boat Club (GMSBC) is a rowing club on the River Thames, based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishrowing.org/club/great-marlow-school-bc/|title=Club details|website=British Rowing}} The club belongs to Great Marlow School.

History

The club was reformed in 2008 following several lottery grants{{cite web|url=https://www.gmsboatclub.co.uk/about|title=Club History|website=Great Marlow School Boat Club}} and initially shared the facilities of the Marlow Rowing Club.{{cite web|url=https://gms.bucks.sch.uk/learning/rowing-at-gms/ |title=Rowing at GMS |website=Great Marlow School |access-date=21 February 2025 }}

The following year in 2009 the club moved out of the Marlow RC boathouse and moved to Longridge Activity Centre on Quarry Wood Lane, where it shares the facilities with Sir William Borlase's Grammar School Boat Club.{{cite web|url=https://www.gms.bucks.sch.uk/?page_id=112|title=Club history|website=Great Marlow School}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishrowing.org/2023/08/new-marlow-schools-boathouse-project-launches-urgent-appeal-for-funds/ |title=New Marlow schools boathouse project launches urgent appeal for funds |website=Brtish Rowing |access-date=21 February 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/23802615.marlow-schools-reveal-plans-socially-inclusive-boathouse/ |title=Marlow schools reveal plans for 'socially inclusive' boathouse |website=Bucks Free Press |date=20 September 2023|access-date=21 February 2025 }} The construction met with some controversy over using

Green belt land to build the boathouse.{{cite web|url=https://savemarlowsgreenbelt.org/2022/11/24/boathouse-application-approved/ |title=Boathouse application – approved! |website=Save Marlow's Greenbelt |date=20 September 2023|access-date=21 February 2025 }}

Honours

= British champions =

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1978	Men J16 4+ {{cite web\|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS184910577/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=d8f6e598\|title=Railton, Jim. "Rowing." Times, 17 July 1978, p. 11\|website=Times Digital Archives}}
1981	Men J16 2-, Men J16 4- {{cite web\|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS235243764/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=5061c9be\|title=Railton, Jim. "Rowing." Times, 20 July 1981, p. 14\|website=Times Digital Archives}}
1983	Women J18 1x {{cite web\|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS319655154/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=ffb637a1\|title=Railton, Jim. "Problems for British selectors." Times, 18 July 1983, p. 19\|website=Times Digital Archives}}
2012	Open J16 4-{{cite web\|url=http://britchamps.org/sites/default/files/resultsarchive/res12sun.txt\|title=2012 results\|website=Web Archive\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161206002243/http://britchamps.org/sites/default/files/resultsarchive/res12sun.txt\|archive-date=2016-12-06}}

References

Category:Sport in Buckinghamshire

Category:Rowing clubs in England

Category:Rowing clubs of the River Thames

Category:Scholastic rowing in the United Kingdom

Great Marlow School Boat Club

History

Honours

= British champions =

See also

References