Outdoor leisure

Great Yarmouth Services Ltd is responsible for a range of services related to Great Yarmouth Borough Council owned outdoor leisure and sport facilities. Facilities available in Great Yarmouth are:

• eight full size football pitches located at Beaconsfield Recreation Ground, Wellesley Recreation Ground, Mill Lane Recreation Ground, Gorleston Recreation and Magdalen Recreation Ground
• 23 mini football pitches located at Beaconsfield Recreation Ground, Mill Lane Recreation Ground and Magdalen Recreation Ground
• two rugby pitches at Cobholm Recreation Ground
• two cricket pitches at Beaconsfield Recreation Ground
• six bowling greens located on North Drive, Britannia Greens and Gorleston Cliffs
• an athletics track and field at Wellesley Recreation Ground
• a 4G multi sports area at Wellesley Recreation Ground
• six tennis courts on Gorleston Cliffs - currently unavailable due to refurbishment
• a pitch and putt course at Bure Park
• a putting course on Gorleston Cliffs

Services undertaken to ensure these facilities are kept in peak condition and fit or purpose include:

• maintaining the playing services - grass cutting, weed and pest management, surface repair and ensuring adequate soil drainage
• line marking, including football pitches are in accordance with relevant sporting bodies regulations (such as FIFA and ECB), without the use of additives that may prove detrimental to the grass
• supply, erection and storage of goal posts, crossbars and nets
• landscaping
• management of changing rooms and attendants
• the letting and hire of the sports pitches and managing their use

If you are interested in using any of these facilities please visit the Book sports facilities section.