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THE PERFECT BASE FOR YOUR SPORTS EVENTS Located in the heart of the Northamptonshire countryside HOW TO GET TO IDEALLY SITUATED MOULTON COLLEGE WITH ACCESSIBLE By Road: The College is situated in the village of Moulton, which is 5 miles from the centre of TRANSPORT LINKS Northampton. Moulton can be reached either by the A43 Northampton to Kettering Road or from the A508 Northampton to Market Harborough Road. Moulton College is located in the In either case, avoid signs for Moulton Park as this is an industrial estate. heart of the Northamptonshire countryside, centrally located By Rail: Rail users may travel to the nearby between London and Birmingham. Northampton Station (15 minutes by taxi), which is a main line station with regular services to London, The College has been established for 100 Birmingham and elsewhere in the UK. years and has extensive facilities to cater for a wide range of sporting events and camps. By Air: Heathrow (2 hours by car), Gatwick (2½ hours There’s also accommodation and catering by car) and Birmingham (1 hour by car) are within easy facilities on site, reducing the need to travel reach of Moulton via the UK motorway network. All during your event or training camp. The airports have regular scheduled flights to all parts of facilities are used extensively for teaching the UK, Europe and International destinations. purposes within the College however they are also run on a commercial basis, available for If you are using satellite navigation you should enter hire by clubs, organisations, local groups and one of the following postcodes: professional sporting bodies. • Moulton Centre – NN3 7RR • Holcot Centre – NN3 7SX A5 A427 Corby Oundle • Pitsford Centre,M1 ManagementMarket Harbor Centreough A6003 A605 Lutterworth and Lodge Farm – NN3 7QL A6116 Rothwell A14 A14 Kettering Thrapston A5 A14 Rugby A45 A508 A14 Crick Raunds M45 A509 A423 Higham Moulton Long Buckby Ferrers College A426 Moulton A45 M1 College Wellingborough Rushden A425 A45 Earls Barton Daventry A45 Northampton A508 A6 Sharnbrook Fawsley A428 M40 A423 Woodford A43 Halse A421 Olney Roade Towcester Bedford A508 A508 M1 A422 Sulgrave A5 Kempston Silverstone Banbury A43 A421 A422 Milton Keynes A6 Bletchley Flitwick M40 A421 Woburn M1 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SPORT FACILITIES At Moulton College we are extremely proud of the range and quality of facilities that we are able to offer to both our students and commercial clients. This guide aims to provide you with an overview of the sports facilities and amenities on offer at the College. However, nothing can beat taking a look for yourself so please contact us to arrange for a tour and we will be happy to discuss your exact requirements. OUR FACILITIES INCLUDE • Two sports halls one 32 x 14m multi purpose sport hall and the other a 24m x 44m indoor Futsal and Hockey Hall • Fitness suite with studio • Indoor and outdoor changing facilities • Two full size rugby pitches • Specialist free weights facility • Two full size football pitches • Training areas • Junior and mini-soccer pitches Available for hire by • Floodlit sand-based artificial pitch clubs, organisations, local • Tennis courts groups and professional • Netball courts sporting bodies • Floodlit rubber-based artificial pitch • Athletics track OUR FACILITIES The John Ashby Sports Hall Indoor Sports Arena The Fitness Suite Holcot Centre Pitsford Centre The fully air-conditioned Fitness The John Ashby Sports Hall was A second indoor sports arena, Suite and Studio complement the opened in July 2000 and is a with both indoor and outdoor College training and teaching modern, multi-purpose sports changing facilities, has been open facilities superbly. hall. The hall is used extensively since early 2007 at the Pitsford The Fitness Suite has 17 stations for teaching during College hours Centre. The indoor arena provides a including cardio and resistance and is available for hire on a comprehensive range of additional machines, as well as a free-weights commercial basis out of academic facilities. and stretching area. The Suite is an hours. It caters for a wide variety The playing area in the Pitsford excellent facility for users to reach of sports including badminton, arena is 40 × 20 metres, with a their health and fitness goals, and basketball, volleyball, archery, specialist free weights facility assist in the academic activities of fencing and karate. A broad range designed for use by teams and students. of equipment is also available to academies, as well as providing a use for these sports. The Studio is home to a dance training resource for professional school, and is also used to deliver Some of the Centre’s external clubs. spinning classes; a motivational clients include: Northampton Town Also included in the arena is a group exercise involving cycling Football Club, Northampton Saints climbing wall and a four platform to inspirational music. Rugby Club, Northampton Martial strength and conditioning gym. Arts Clubs, Titans Basketball Club A number of the sports facility staff and numerous other sports teams. Futsal, netball and fencing activities are trained as fitness instructors are already well established at the and personal trainers to help In recent years the Hall has been arena and the variety of activities members with their exercise used for conferencing and the continues to grow, including a requirements. annual College awards ceremonies, number of high profile events and celebrating the achievements The Fitness Suite provides competitions for numerous regular of College students during the particular benefit to all full-time clients who use other facilities on academic year. sports students and residential the campus. students, as membership is offered Most recently the Pitsford Centre as part of the course or residency. has hosted the England Futsal It also provides access to a modern squad and the England Hockey fitness facility, at a competitive squads for training camps and is rate, for staff and other students the home of the Great Britain Para throughout the College. Fencing team who host many of their training camps at this site. OUR FACILITIES CONTINUED The Holcot Sports Pitches Tennis and Netball Courts Artificial Pitches The high quality sports pitches Six floodlit all weather courts, The newly resurfaced rubber crumb The sand artificial pitch is used for at the Holcot Centre support which can be set up for tennis, artificial pitch was the first third- hockey training and match play the College football and rugby netball or football, are also generation pitch to be developed and is also used by football teams academies. Currently two full-size available adjacent to the sand- in the county. The rubber crumb for training and match purposes. football pitches measuring 110 × 70 based artificial pitch. The courts based surface is specifically The water-based hockey pitch is metres, one rugby pitch measuring are currently booked to host a designed to accommodate both based at the Pitsford Centre. Fully 120 × 75 metres and three training number of clubs training as well as football and rugby. The surface, floodlit, the pitch provides a carpet areas are available for use. for community sessions. The tennis sanctioned by the Football surface that utilises water cannons courts are available throughout Association for tournament match The excellent quality of the turf to wet the playing area pre-match, the summer on a pay-as-you-play play allows more fixtures to go is reflected by the clients that reducing the friction on the ball and basis and as part of fitness suite ahead during periods of adverse use our pitches. Northampton enhancing the speed and quality membership to members of staff, weather, helping to maintain Town Football Club’s Centre of of play. The pitch provides a truly students and the public. the quality of the grass pitches. Excellence youth teams train at the magnificent facility that supports Extensively used by the FA for College throughout the year. The the academic programmes, as well their coaching programmes, the rugby pitch is also used for county Athletics Track as providing a further facility for hire artificial pitch is also heavily used by external clients. Local, regional rugby squads as well as visiting This eight-lane track and field within the College programmes, and international hockey teams use international teams. athletics facility was built to meet providing a facility of outstanding the facility extensively throughout UK Athletics Competition ‘Class quality for students and external the year. The Pitsford Sports Pitches A’ Certification Standard. The clients. track not only benefits Moulton The sports pitches at the Pitsford students but also the local The dimensions of the artificial pitch Centre were used for the first community including the Rugby and are 93 × 57 metres. The pitch can time during the 2007-08 season Northampton Athletics Association also be set out as four five-a-side and are proving to be surfaces Club, Northampton Athletics Club pitches or two seven-a-side pitches. of excellent quality. Two football and Northamptonshire Triathlon This pitch is home to various small- pitches measuring 60 × 90 metres Club. Moulton College has also sided football leagues as well as and 70 × 110 metres and a floodlit introduced a new Athletics several recreational football clubs. rugby pitch measuring 120 × 70 Academy offering young people metres, are an excellent addition A full-size, sand artificial pitch, the opportunity to study towards to the playing fields at the College. which can be used for hockey a Level 3 Diploma in Sports and These pitches are used frequently or football, has been a superb Fitness alongside a range of by College academies as well as addition to the complex. It can practical sports activities. In external clients, including Stoke be used as one full size pitch or addition, there has been several City Football Club and many divided into thirds for smaller size training courses and camps held at England rugby squads.
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