Hackney Marshes
Hackney Marshes is internationally known as the spiritual home of Sunday league football, with 82 football, rugby and cricket pitches on North and South Marsh and Mabley Green.
Hackney Marshes Centre
The award-winning Hackney Marshes Centre provides 31 spacious changing rooms, a café and a public terrace. It’s a great venue for conferences, weddings, educational events and community events. For more information please contact us or visit Better – Hackney Marshes Centre.
Hackney Marshes Pavilion
The Hackney Marshes Pavilion provides 16 spacious changing rooms and four officials’ rooms, alongside a social space overlooking the cricket show pitch. It’s a great venue for educational, team and community events. For more information please contact us or visit Better – Hackney Marshes Centre.
Amenities
- trim trail
- bird hide
- conservation area
- tree nursery
- football pitches
- rugby pitches
- café bar and roof terrace
- cricket pitches
- cricket practice nets
- junior football pitches
- conference/meeting rooms
- changing facilities
The park holds a Green Flag award. The awards are given to the best green spaces in the country and are awarded each year to make sure the quality of the green space remains high.
Prices
Grass football – peak time prices
- 11 a side block booking – adult: £98.45 and junior: £46.60
- 9 a side – adult: £82.15 and junior: £41.15
- 7 side – adult: £71.10 and junior: £35.50
Peak times are evenings and weekends. For a full list of sports pitch prices across the borough call 020 8986 7955, email hackney.marshes@gll.org or visit Better – Hackney Marshes.
Sports pitch bookings and enquiries
Sports pitch bookings are managed by Better. To book pitches call 020 8986 7955, email hackney.marshes@gll.org or visit Better – Hackney Marshes.
North Marsh habitats project
The North Marsh Habitats Project began with a plan to enhance habitat around the new Hackney Marshes Pavilion. Local ecologist Russell Miller devised a scheme to add flower rich pollinator gardens and wet scrapes for other invertebrates.
For more information, see Rewilding Hackney Marshes.
Hackney Marshes
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Telephone
Opening times
- 24 hour access
Notes
Closing times:
- 1 January to 21 January – 5pm
- 22 January to 4 February – 5.30pm
- 5 February to 25 February – 6pm
- 26 February to 10 March – 6.30pm
- 11 March to 24 March – 7pm
- 25 March to 7 April – 8pm
- 8 April to 21 April – 8.30pm
- 22 April to 5 May – 9pm
- 6 May to 11 August – 9.30pm
- 12 August to 18 August – 9pm
- 19 August to 8 September – 8.30pm
- 9 September to 15 September – 8pm
- 16 September to 6 October – 7.30pm
- 7 October to 13 October – 7pm
- 14 October to 27 October – 6.30pm
- 28 October to 31 December – 5pm