This centre is the national centre for wheelchair sports and is the home of the National Wheelchair…read moreChampionships. It also has a fantastic training swimming pool, a great well stocked and always busy gym. Badminton courts, football and athletics are some of the other activites you can access there. As a family we use many of the facilities. One moan is that when it is busy the cafe is never open and I feel they miss out on some good custom.

Cricket and Hockey club for all age ranges…read more Good quality cricket nets and pitch and grass hockey pitch. Excellent coaching and a good friendly club. The bar is good (although not always open) and a room is available to hire.

Great places with lots of facilities and clubs to join from football to athletics. Theres even a barread more

If you're playing chess, make sure you use your horsies and your bishams…read more If you swear here, and you're an accountant, is that an Abbey Cuss? First-Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this facility - I used to play here! Once or twice anyway. Our teams would rent this facility out just for a treat. It was expensive but it was where England trained and that made it very exciting for us. This is back when they were actually good, after the 1990 World Cup. And then later after Euro 96. Those were the days. It's been a long long long long time since I was at Bisham Abbey. I played here in a soccer tournament thingy with my Dad, what seems like decades ago. The facilities were some of the best I ever experienced. It was (then) where England used to practice. I'm talking about the England national soccer (footy) team of course. I have no idea if they still do, but it's a good memory, nevertheless. I'm not sure how the facilities compare to the newer places which I have never been to.

So Bisham Abbey is one of the original national sport centres. It is set in picturesque town of…read moreMarlow just off the M4. The venue is home to many of GB sports governing bodies, Hockey, Judo EIS and so the list goes on. They have a good range of sporting facilities on site including football and hockey pitches, squash courts, tennis courts and state of the art gym facilities. You get many international athletes on site both able bodied and disabled, so there is a great mix of people from all sporting disciplines. The facilities are open to the general public, but I think you have to sign up and become a member to use them. They have on site hotel facilities, which puts some hotels to shame!! Not only can you participate in many sporting activities as the name suggests there is more to the place than just a sporting venue. The old Abbey is available for hire for weddings and business events. The rumour is that the great hall is actually haunted... I would have given it 4 stars but the wifi was very poor and in the day and age we live in that it was poor

Local club playing (currently) a couple of levels below the national English divisions…read more A good couple of hours spent standing on the terraces (remember those!) and you can pop into the club-house for a pint and catch up on the scores at half-time. Relatively cheap and free for children. Trivia: The York Road Ground is (apparently) the oldest, continuously played on football ground in the world.

Our Witney office rate this as one of their top 5 places to play sport. There is a waiting list for…read morethis prestigious 18-hole club. However, day rates are available for non-members.

As parks go, this one is quite wonderful. Loads of open space, running and bicycle track, exercise…read morestations, and such. There are a great many benches for just sitting and enjoying the sounds, sights, and smells of nature. Sunsets are a special treat here, as the main slope of the park runs toward town away west. It's a beautiful sight, even with the construction cranes in silhouette. Grab a picnic bag or a take out pizza and a few pints, and head there on your next visit to the area. You'll not regret it!

South Park is great for lazing around in summer, picnics, meeting friends and, most importantly,…read morefor building enormous snowmen and snow sculptures in winter. I spent a very happy afteroon here one February building snow slides on the slopes and crunching through frozen leaves. It's surprisingly large despite being surrounded by roads, and although you can always hear the traffic in the background, it's still quite a peaceful experience. The worst bit is that it's quite hard to find an exit as they're quite spaced out, and it has a reputation for not being good for women walking through at night. I've never heard of anything bad happening, but it's worth bearing in mind.

A great example of a private gym and golf club. I've got no experience of what the golfing side is…read morelike, but the fitness side is brilliant. There is a 20m pool together with two spa/hydro pools - the biggest spa pool I've ever seen which can easily fit 20 people and would put most spa resorts facilities to shame. Also available is a sauna and steam room, there are cooler sauna's located in the male and female changing areas. The changing areas are always clean, they have digital lockers so you simply go in and pick a locker. No need to wander around with a key on your wrist. The gym is spacious with loads of CV kit, weight machines and free weights. Every CV item has a view of the TV screens and the running machines also get a view out over the golf course! I like the cardio theatre environment where you can plug yourself into the TV screens. The cycles are especially good as they have individaul TV screens, although beware that you have to keep cycling to watch TV! They do loads of classes as well, there are two studios and a specific spinning studio. All in all a very good environment - shame you have to pay a few quid for it!

This place might be great for a visit, but it is not a place to stay for mor than one night.read more