How much does it cost to play tennis in a Croydon park?

£5 a session, the same at all fourteen sites, booked in advance through the Croydon Parks Tennis pages. Better, which is GLL, runs the courts for the council and sends you an access code with the booking. Free Barclays Free Park Tennis sessions also run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and at weekends.

Which Croydon park has the most tennis courts?

Trumble Gardens in Thornton Heath, with five, followed by Addiscombe Recreation Ground with four. Biggin Wood Park, Coulsdon Memorial Ground and Park Hill Recreation Ground have three each. Several of the fourteen sites, including Wandle Park and Rickman Hill, have a single court.

What surface are Croydon's park tennis courts?

A near-even split, which is unusual. The operator's booking sheets put seven of the fourteen sites on acrylic and seven on tarmac, so it is worth checking which you are booking if you have a preference. None of the fourteen is floodlit.

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Tennis in Croydon

No clubs on Courting here yet, and fourteen public court venues across the borough.

Croydon has more park tennis sites than any other borough in south London: fourteen of them, from Purley Beeches and Coulsdon Memorial Ground in the far south up to Upper Norwood and South Norwood in the north. The council and the LTA put around £600,000 into rebuilding them, and Better runs the lot at £5 a session, with an access code sent when you book.

Fourteen sites is a lot of court and it still leaves the harder half untouched, which is finding three other people who can play at the same time and who make the match worth playing. Courting is what Croydon clubs use for that: it takes the booking, composes doubles that stay even, and keeps a club night rotating so nobody spends it on the bench.

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Public and park courts in Croydon

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Croydon describes the refurbishment as covering 32 courts across 14 parks. The operator's booking sheets list 33 today, and the per-venue counts here are read off those sheets.

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Public and park tennis courts, with court counts, surfaces and how to book
	Venue	Courts	Surface	Access	Book
1	Addiscombe Recreation Ground	4	Tarmac	Pay and play	Book , Addiscombe Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
2	Ashburton Park	2	Tarmac	Pay and play	Book , Ashburton Park, opens in a new tab
3	Biggin Wood Park	3	Tarmac	Pay and play	Book , Biggin Wood Park, opens in a new tab
4	Coulsdon Memorial Ground	3	Acrylic	Pay and play	Book , Coulsdon Memorial Ground, opens in a new tab
5	Grangewood Park	2	Tarmac	Pay and play	Book , Grangewood Park, opens in a new tab
6	Park Hill Recreation Ground	3	Acrylic	Pay and play	Book , Park Hill Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
7	Purley Beeches	2	Acrylic	Pay and play	Book , Purley Beeches, opens in a new tab
8	Rickman Hill Recreation Ground	1	Acrylic	Pay and play	Book , Rickman Hill Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
9	Shirley Church Recreation Ground	2	Acrylic	Pay and play	Book , Shirley Church Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
10	South Norwood Lake	2	Tarmac	Pay and play	Book , South Norwood Lake, opens in a new tab
11	South Norwood Recreation Ground	1	Acrylic	Pay and play	Book , South Norwood Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
12	Trumble Gardens	5	Tarmac	Pay and play	Book , Trumble Gardens, opens in a new tab
13	Upper Norwood Recreation Ground	2	Acrylic	Pay and play	Book , Upper Norwood Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
14	Wandle Park	1	Acrylic	Pay and play	Book , Wandle Park, opens in a new tab

1Addiscombe Recreation Ground
Book , Addiscombe Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
4 courtsTarmacPay and play
2Ashburton Park
Book , Ashburton Park, opens in a new tab
2 courtsTarmacPay and play
3Biggin Wood Park
Book , Biggin Wood Park, opens in a new tab
3 courtsTarmacPay and play
4Coulsdon Memorial Ground
Book , Coulsdon Memorial Ground, opens in a new tab
3 courtsAcrylicPay and play
5Grangewood Park
Book , Grangewood Park, opens in a new tab
2 courtsTarmacPay and play
6Park Hill Recreation Ground
Book , Park Hill Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
3 courtsAcrylicPay and play
7Purley Beeches
Book , Purley Beeches, opens in a new tab
2 courtsAcrylicPay and play
8Rickman Hill Recreation Ground
Book , Rickman Hill Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
1 courtsAcrylicPay and play
9Shirley Church Recreation Ground
Book , Shirley Church Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
2 courtsAcrylicPay and play
10South Norwood Lake
Book , South Norwood Lake, opens in a new tab
2 courtsTarmacPay and play
11South Norwood Recreation Ground
Book , South Norwood Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
1 courtsAcrylicPay and play
12Trumble Gardens
Book , Trumble Gardens, opens in a new tab
5 courtsTarmacPay and play
13Upper Norwood Recreation Ground
Book , Upper Norwood Recreation Ground, opens in a new tab
2 courtsAcrylicPay and play
14Wandle Park
Book , Wandle Park, opens in a new tab
1 courtsAcrylicPay and play

Venues, access and locations come from council and local-authority pages. Court counts, surfaces and floodlights come from each venue operator's own booking page on ClubSpark. A blank means no approved source states it. Last checked 28 July 2026.

Court locations come from OpenStreetMap. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Tennis in Croydon: common questions

How much does it cost to play tennis in a Croydon park?: £5 a session, the same at all fourteen sites, booked in advance through the Croydon Parks Tennis pages. Better, which is GLL, runs the courts for the council and sends you an access code with the booking. Free Barclays Free Park Tennis sessions also run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and at weekends.
Which Croydon park has the most tennis courts?: Trumble Gardens in Thornton Heath, with five, followed by Addiscombe Recreation Ground with four. Biggin Wood Park, Coulsdon Memorial Ground and Park Hill Recreation Ground have three each. Several of the fourteen sites, including Wandle Park and Rickman Hill, have a single court.
What surface are Croydon's park tennis courts?: A near-even split, which is unusual. The operator's booking sheets put seven of the fourteen sites on acrylic and seven on tarmac, so it is worth checking which you are booking if you have a preference. None of the fourteen is floodlit.

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