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

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.

FAQs

Hackney Marshes user group

Hackney Marshes User Group are local people who use, appreciate and try to protect and enhance Hackney Marshes, including East Marsh and Wick Woodland. The community tree nursery is a volunteer-run project on the marsh and holds a Community Green Flag award. It grows young trees for planting by community groups across Hackney, and maintains a forest garden and sustainable apiary.

Wildlife on the Marshes

To find out more about the locations of various habitats on the Marshes visit Hackney Marshes User Group.

Management plan

See management plan (PDF 15mb)

Unauthorised events injunction

In 2020, following a number of unauthorised events at Hackney Marshes that caused disruption to nearby residents, damage to wildlife and put people at risk from coronavirus, we successfully sought an interim injunction, coupled with a power of arrest, to prevent them while we explored longer-term options.

On 13 May 2021, the injunction order was discharged by the High Court following a request by the Council. Further details can be found in the sealed order and notice (13 May 2021):

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Page updated on: 30 January 2023

Hackney Marshes

Address

Homerton Road
London
E9 5PF

Telephone

Opening times

  • 24 hour access