Innovative Grass Clubs · United Kingdom
East Dorset Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
Keeping real grass in a mixed-surface club
Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, United Kingdom · Members club
No. 46, Innovative Grass Clubs
Keeping real grass in a mixed-surface club
Primary driver: Commitment & Stewardship
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- Grass courts
- 6
- Other courts
- 4 artificial clay, 6 artificial grass
- Season
- Members
- Address
- Salterns Road, Parkstone, Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, BH14 0JR, United Kingdom
Why it is special
East Dorset Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Poole has 16 courts on 3 different surfaces, which the club describes as Championship standard. There are 6 grass courts, 6 Astro artificial grass courts and 4 artificial clay courts, with recently installed LED floodlights on the artificial courts.
Members can book all courts free of charge. The club says people have commented that it has some of the finest tennis facilities in Dorset. The grass lawns sit within a large multi-surface club in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area.
More grass tennis in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
East Dorset Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is one of 78 clubs in the Grass Court Atlas for the United Kingdom. The nearest other grass court clubs listed are South Hants Lawn Tennis Club (44 km), Portswood Lawn Tennis Club (45 km) and Swaythling Lawn Tennis Club (47 km).
Official website: East Dorset Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club

