Bath Skatepark (vert/mini/funbox..) Sk8 & Ride Bristol Tel:(0117)907 9995 ira@netcomuk.co.uk Situated near Temple Meads BR station. "Sk8 & Ride features a large ramp room complete with 30+ft wide 11ft tall vert ramp, 5ft tall 24ft wide spine ramp, and a street course consisting of bowled ends, rails, a funbox and two enormous wallrides- both about 20ft tall [with coping] All ramps are solid, sheeted in masonite, and are all sorted to ride. All the ramps are connected, so you can flow around the park from ramp to ramp. There is also an awesome mexican resteraunt and licenced bar! Caversham Reading Free, open any time, can get cramped, so go in the morning, 3 quarters, small box, spine, grind boxs, small and tight, shit box. Over caversham bridge. Meadow Hill Reading Small, free, good surface. Spine, slight trasition hip, box + grind, quater. full 'o bladers but not bad. Everyone meets here usually w/end & eves. Meadow Hill near Caversham. Behind Reading central station heading towards Caversham on the right. Cambridgeshire The Ramps Hill Rise St. Ives Free: Mini, spine/volcano and two quaterpipes. Open all hours, 7 days a week, Cheshire Birchwood Warrington In risley moss / birchwood forest park Half pipe few other ramps Free 1 mile from birchwood station and birchwood shopping mall bus 125 from warrington bus station Cornwall Mount Hawk Skatepark Tel:01209 890 705 Mini's, spine, street course. Plymouth Flat Spot Tel:? No Info ???? Cumbria Ulverston Leisure Center Spine Ulverston Cumbria (40 minutes west of M6 from junction 36, follow A590 into Ulverston and look for signs for the Leisure Complex on the left hand side of the road.) Derbyshire Storm Colombo Street Derby Tel:01332 201 768 27,000 sq ft w/ seating for 3,000. 45ft wide vert ramp, large street course, jumpbox, cafe, bar, shop. Dorset Lansdowne Leisure Centre Bournemouth Tel:01202 424945 or 01202 300020 This 30,000 sq ft outdoor complex consists of a 48ft wide 5-6-7ft high mini ramp, a large street course and a 32ft high vert ramp. New Milton Jump box, big hip, quater pipes, grind rails, spine and a halfpipe. Free, open all hours. On the field next to the main town. Slades Far Nr. Kinson, Bournemouth Old school bowls. Canford Heath Midi ramp About 4 miles from Slades. East Sussex Hastings Mini ramp Tel:01424 718143 Go along Hatings sea front road until you get to the pier, then turn in land, turn left at the end of the road, then right. The mini is on the left. Essex Leigh On Sea Skate Park Tel:01702 714776 Greater London Banbury Tel:01295 720135 Barn Ramp Upminster Tel:0183 807205 Harrow Skate Park Tel:0500 000020 Concrete bowls. Kingston Tel:0181 942 1707 Train to Norbitton follow train track to New Malden, it's on the left hand side of the track. Portabello 32ft mini/midi Romford Skatepark Tel:0181 924 1409 or 01708 474429 Sony Playstation Park on the A40 Huge, vert, mini, fun boxes and loads of other stuff Greater Manchester Bones Canal street Stockport 4 quid for 3 hours [you can pay for 1 or 2 hours or whatever too], 5 first time, 2 floors! few quaters, jump boxes, grind boxes etc, flatbanks, wallrides, spine, mini, vert, bowl for skaters and frootbooters only... Bones II Bolton Tel: 01204 392939 £2.00 1 hour, £4.00 3hours, membership £3.00 Directions: Carry on from Waterplace and turn right at Mcdonalds and turn right at the Gilldon Arms. The Pipeline Unit Victoria Industrial Estate Pollard Street Manchester Tel: 0498522959 Includes a full pipe Hampshire Bailes's Backyard 91,the crofts Newbury Free, spine mini, vert, 3 jump boxes, lots of quarter pipes, a hip, driveways, flat bank, plenty of wall rides. Mayflower Park Southampton Built by Freestyle, the park consists of a funbox, driveway, quaterpipes, grind rails. Mini ramp Netley Abbey Southampton Situated in the Royal Victoria Country Park in Southampton. The ramp has been surfaced in ultra-smooth screed, not unlike school corridor flooring, then painted with three coats of grippy paint. Looks pretty smart to me. Mini ramp Lords Hill Southampton 20' wide by 5' high. Mini ramp Northam Community centre. Romsey Mini ramp Romsey Southampton Southsea Skatepark, Southsea Common Portsmouth Tel:01705 825005 Open weekends and holidays. Concrete/metal park, 70's style, with bowls, snake run, midi, mini, vert, death box, and street area Mini Ramp Fareham (behind fareham town football stadium) free good but always in use by some gay little inliners. Totton Sk8park Don't know where, but supposd to be pretty good! Hereford and Worcester Worcester Skatepark Youth Centre, Spring Gardens, City Walls Rd Worcester Tel:01905 424781 Isle of White Newport Skatepark Sea View Rd. Newport Free Next to the netball courts. Kent Vertical K5 Northfleet industrial estate, Lower rd, Northfleet Tel: 01474 359555 Tues-fri, 1pm-10pm, £3.50 per 3hr session. Sat-sun 10am-7pm, £4.00 per 3hr session. .Midi-ramp, fun-box, quarters, spine, volcano etc. Lancashire Wesham Mini Blackpool 2 miles off junction 3 of M55 before Blackpool Mersyside Liverpool Ramp Park Hartley Lane Aintree Tel:0151 691 2843 The place is enormous, and at the moment has a mini / spine, BIG street course with grinbox, hips, rails, etc. a rhythm section (with flat bank landings -ugh), a BIG funbox (12ft top!!), and numerous quarterpipes, banks, etc. they are also about to build ANOTHER street course, and a vert ramp too!! Northamptonshire Radlands Northampton tel: 01604 792060 (Studland Rd off A508 heading North) Nottinghamshire Chilwell mini ramp Nottingham tel: 0115 9531002 Oxfordshire Oxford Skatepark Oxford Outdoor, 4ft spine ramp, midi hipped to another midi with vert wall and vert ramp behind] Shropshire Shrewsbury Skatepark Tel:01743 272411 Surrey Priory Skatepark Priory Park Reigate Tyne and Wear Foreshore Skatepark South Shields Tel:0191 455 3579 Warwickshire Mini ramp Kenilworth Always open, free to anyone Around the back of Castle Farm sports centre. West Midlands Vertical Extreme Birmingham 12.00-22.00, 3 hour sessions at 3.50. Mini-ramp, midi-ramp, funbox, spine, pyramid, foam pit, rail and assorted quarter pipes etc. Near the fire station in the city centre or ask at IDEAL skateshop. West Sussex Crawley Skatepark On the right side of the leisure center in Crawley Tel:01293 871401 free!! always open, funbox, spine, volcano etc Yorkshire Aggro Verts Unit 54 Calder Wharfe Mills Huddersfield Rd. Ravensthorpe Dewsbury ph# 01924 439439 There's a 50ft wide mini with minimal flat bottom, and 4 escallators, various quater pipes [including a hip and a spine] but none of them are that wide [stalled stuff only], there's also a rail [and some strange kinked ledges] from one level to another which is good. Grimsby Park This indoor park includes a vert ramp, midi ramp, jump box, hip, subbox and flat bank. It should be a good competition venue because of its high roof and good spectator space. Hyde Park Leeds Free, Open 24/7, 4 quarters, sml/lrg spine, gring box/fun box On Hyde Park corner next to tennis courts in the park. Near the university. Don't go unless you're in a big group because the crime levels are really bad. Rock City Hawthorne Avenue, Hull, HU13 5JX. PH#:01482 223030 A 4000sq-ft skatepark, with jump box, street course and vert ramp Opening times- Mon/Tue- 5pm-10pm, Wed/Thur/Fri- 12noon-10pm, Sat 10am-8pm, Sun- 10am-10pm. Price, £4 all day. Re-Hab II Milner Way Osset ph#: 01294 267673 Now features large quater pipes [8ft+], one wooden rhythm, and some ledges. Roundhay Leeds Open all hours, Tennis Courts off Roundhay Road. Skipton Wheel Park Airville Park Gargrave Rd. Skipton North Yorkshire Situated in Airville Park next to the Swimming pool. From the train station, go straight over the road, then straight on up a little hill, over the canal and through Aireville park. Brand new, outdoor, concrete skatepark featuring a three way hip, some small spines [about 2ft high], lots of ledges [with coping], some flat, some downhill. Wibsey Bradford Mellow tarmac - dated but a good laugh, not big but workable. Usual design In Wibsey park, off Wibsey High Street.approx 3 miles from Bradford town centre heading towards Queensbury via Wibsey. 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