We took over 49,000 bookings for club activities in 2023
We delivered 425 club sessions in October 2024
We had over 5000 bookings in October 2024
About Us
Manvers Waterfront Boat Club was formed in 2009. The club has the use of a purpose built boathouse which is owned and operated by Manvers Lake & Dearne Valley Trust Ltd, a charitable company formed in 2011 to look after the lake and surrounding area.
Since its formation, the club has grown rapidly to its current size of over 2000 members participating in a wide range of activities. The club currently has sections dedicated to Paddlesports (Canoeing, Kayaking and Stand-Up Paddle Boarding), Triathlon, Running, Dragon Boating, Open Water Swimming, Life Saving, Windsurfing, Angling, Model Boating, Photography and Newfoundland Dog Training.
The lake is also regularly used by our partners such as Dearne Valley College and other affiliated organisations.
The Full Story
How and why
Manvers Lake was created in the 1990's as part of the remediation works following the closure of the Wath Main & Manvers Main colliery complex and associated railway yards.
One of the largest collieries was Manvers Main which incorporated what was at one time the biggest coking plant in Western Europe. From 1950 to 1956, Manvers became the centre of coal output from the collieries known as the South Manvers complex that were linked below ground, including Wath Main, Barnburgh Colliery and Kilnhurst.
The colliery complex was closed on 25th March 1988 and the regeneration that has taken place since those smog filled days is astounding. After closure, the site remained derelict until the mid-1990s, when Rotherham Council initiated an ambitious regeneration programme. Manvers, Wath Main Colliery and the Wath railway marshalling yard were demolished, cleared of contamination and landscaped. The site was given a new lease of life with the development of business parks, a nature reserve and the creation of Manvers Lake.
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In addition to its amenity and recreational value, the lake also serves a functional purpose as a balancing lake forming part of a sustainable urban drainage scheme for the surrounding residential and industrial developments.
ACM
This year's ACM took place on the 24th February 2024. Please see the documents attached.