Marlow Rowing Club
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| Location | Marlow, Buckinghamshire |
| Coordinates | 51°34′0.5″N 0°46′24″W / 51.566806°N 0.77333°WCoordinates: 51°34′0.5″N 0°46′24″W / 51.566806°N 0.77333°W |
| Home water | Marlow Lock |
| Founded | 1871 |
| Membership | Open |
| Affiliations | British Rowing |
| Website | www |
| Events | |
| Marlow Regatta, Marlow Town Regatta, Marlow Spring Regatta, Marlow Long Distance Sculls, FirstRow Challenge, Rowers' Revenge Triathlon | |
| Notable members | |
| Steve Redgrave, Zac Purchase, Cath Bishop, Katherine Grainger, Sarah Winckless, Naomi Riches, Mike Spracklen, Gillian Lindsay, Ann Redgrave, | |
Marlow Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Thames in England, on the southern bank of the Thames at Bisham in Berkshire, opposite the town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire just beside Marlow Bridge and on the reach above Marlow Lock. Founded in 1871, it is one of the main rowing and sculling centres in England. Members of the Club have represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and World Championships.
The local football club Marlow F.C. was founded at a dinner at Compleat Angler Hotel in 1870. At a football club dinner at the Angler, members decided that what the town needed next was a rowing club, and further meetings were held to found one, which happened in 16 May 1871. Rowing was already established in the town, and the Marlow Regatta, a separate organisation to the rowing club, had been running since around 1855. Initially the club had no home and rowers sheltered under Marlow Bridge on the Buckinghamshire side, but when the freeholder died in 1888 they had to move to Meakes and Redknap boathouse on the other side of the river. In 1892 Mr Edward Riley offered to allow the use of his land just above the Meakes boathouse, by 1896 Mr Wethered, the club captain (from the local brewery family) obtained a lease from Mr Ward, a life tenant of the site that the club now occupies. The clubhouse was complete in 1896 and formally opened in 1897. Mr Ward died 10 years later, but the new owner, Mr Borgnis granted a new lease the club remained a tenant of sympathetic landlords until it acquired the freehold following the 2011 fire. The neighbouring land was acquired from Sir James Boyton (who still has a boat named after him).
During the early years of the club, the Town Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta was a trophy that many of the Upper Thames clubs wanted, and Marlow entered every year from 1871 (except 1879) until it was withdrawn in 1883, and it won 6 times. The club competed at many local regattas.
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