Leisure facilities

Find out about leisure centres and sport pitches in your area.

Barrow

Barrow Forward

Barrow Forward is a community leisure centre which offers leisure, health and wellbeing activities to families and individuals of all ages and backgrounds.

Dalton Leisure Centre

Dalton Leisure Centre is a superbly equipped modern leisure centre with a 20-metre swimming pool, which includes a giant frog water slide, glass-backed squash courts, a multi-purpose gym, cardiovascular suite and other sports facilities.

Barrow Astro Turf Pitches (ATP)

Barrow Park, Greengate Street, LA13 9DT

The site has six five-a-side pitches and one nine-a-side that can be split to form two seven-a-side pitches pitches).  All pitches are floodlit.

Changing facilities can be booked free of charge on a first come first served basis.

There is on-site parking and bicycle racks.

Book a pitch

The site is currently not open to one-off bookings. We will share further information in due course. 

To make an enquiry about a block lease booking please complete the Barrow ATP booking enquiry form (DOCX , 24KB).

return the form to: sportandleisure@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk.

South Lakeland

There are a variety of facilities available at Kendal and Ulverston leisure centres including gyms, swimming pools and sports pitches. Timetables for classes and sessions are available online.

There's also Windermere Outdoor Adventure Centre, where you can canoe, kayak, windsurf and sail.

Eden

Penrith Leisure Centre

Penrith Leisure Centre has swimming and teaching pools, a climbing wall, gym, sports hall, indoor bowl rink, sauna, meeting and exercise rooms

Appleby Leisure Centre

Appleby Leisure Centre has a 25m swimming pool with disabled access, a small teaching pool, a fitness suite and viewing gallery.

Frenchfield Sports Centre

Frenchfield Sports Centre has seven football pitches, two mini soccer pitches, changing rooms, pavilion with gallery, kitchen, meeting room and free car parking.

Football pitches

As well as at the above leisure centres and sport centre, Eden has three council-run football pitches used by local teams.

  • King George Field, Appleby
  • The Crescent, Penrith
  • Castletown Recreation Ground, Penrith

To enquire about these pitches:

Tel: 01768 863450
email: frenchfield.sports@gll.org

You can find more information about prices and pitch sizes on the better.org.uk website.