Climbing walls in South East
48 walls across 35 towns and cities, adult entry £8–£17. 17 are bouldering-only.
By county: Berkshire · East Sussex · Hampshire · Kent
Cheapest entry in South East
| Wall | City | Type | Adult entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire Boulder (Hampshire Fitness Centre) | Whitchurch | Bouldering | £8 |
| Fort Purbrook Bouldering Walls (Peter Ashley Activity Centres) | Portsmouth | Bouldering | £9 |
| University of Southampton Bouldering Wall | Southampton | Bouldering + ropes | £10.49 |
| Ravelin Sports Centre Climbing Wall (University of Portsmouth) | Portsmouth | Bouldering + ropes | £11.50 |
| University of Portsmouth Climbing Wall | Portsmouth | Bouldering + ropes | £11.50 |
| Brookes Climb | Oxford | Bouldering + ropes | £12 |
| Climb Kent | Maidstone | Bouldering + ropes | £12 |
| Golden Gecko Climbing | Romsey | Bouldering + ropes | £12 |
| Sandown Rocks | Sandown | Bouldering + ropes | £12.50 |
| Boulder Brighton | Brighton | Bouldering | £13 |
Southampton
Boulder Shack Climbing Gym
Parthian Climbing Southampton
Parthian's Southampton centre at Adanac Park combines bouldering circuits with roped and lead walls, including two IFSC speed walls on auto belay. The site lists a cafe and shop, training areas and a gym, plus courses and kids programmes.
The Climbing Hangar Southampton
A 28,000 sq ft bouldering gym with over 300 climbs across all grades and weekly route resets. Training equipment includes a 50-degree Kilter Board, a 40-degree Tension 2 Board and a 40-degree Moon Board, alongside a strength training gym, cafe, shop and free parking.
University of Southampton Bouldering Wall
Bouldering wall with matting plus auto-belay climbing routes at the Jubilee Sport and Recreation Centre on the Highfield campus. An induction is required before use, and supervised auto-belay sessions run on set weekday evenings and weekend daytimes.
Guildford
Blue Spider Climbing
Climbing centre on the Slyfield Industrial Estate in Guildford, formerly Craggy Island and now part of Spider Climbing. The site lists adult and youth coaching, termly clubs, social climbing sessions and Learn to Lead courses.
RockBox Guildford
RockBox is High Sports' fun climbing attraction inside the Guildford Spectrum leisure complex, with themed auto-belay challenges including alien faces, a flower platform and perspex climbing features. Sessions are sold as timed tasters for ages 5 and up with all equipment included, rather than as day passes.
Surrey Summit, Surrey Sports Park
Surrey Summit at Surrey Sports Park has over 80 boulder problems from V0 to V10 plus 65 or more roped routes graded 3+ to 8a on walls up to 12m, with four TrueBlue auto belays. Membership requires a Sport Access category and a walk-in adult day rate is not published on the site.
Maidstone
Climb Kent
Purpose built climbing centre at Lower Grange Farm Activity Centre near Maidstone, with 25 walls, over 60 routes, 14 lead walls and 50 bouldering routes. Public access is through booked open sessions and there are 80+ parking spaces on site.
Lower Grange Farm Activity Centre
Kent activity centre with a dedicated climbing centre running courses from beginner to experienced, including Wild Climbers for ages 3-7, levels 1-4 for ages 8-17, adult courses and GCSE instruction. The site describes itself as a centre for schools, colleges, Scouts, Guides, DofE and other youth organisations.
The Climbing Experience
A walk-in bouldering centre at Baltic Wharf in Maidstone, with a separate fun wall for younger climbers (minimum age 3 on the fun wall, 5 for bouldering). Free parking, a cafe and shop, a therapy room and Flowstone yoga and fitness classes are on site.
Portsmouth
Fort Purbrook Bouldering Walls (Peter Ashley Activity Centres)
Two dedicated bouldering spaces at Fort Purbrook totalling around 1,400 square feet: a Boulder Room with 45-degree panels, waves, slabs, cracks, aretes and an 8-foot roof, and a Training Room with a 16-foot tower, curved wall, roof sections, chimney and overhangs. Availability can be limited by group bookings, so the centre advises calling ahead; no shoe hire is offered.
Ravelin Sports Centre Climbing Wall (University of Portsmouth)
A 242 square metre climbing facility running from basement to roof of the Ravelin Sports Centre, with a 10.85m high auto-belay wall carrying 8 auto belays, lead routes graded 3+ to 7c and around 120 square metres of bouldering up to 4m.
University of Portsmouth Climbing Wall
Climbing facility at the Ravelin Sports Centre with 242 square metres of climbing: a 10m-wide lead wall reaching 10.85m with varying overhang, plus roughly 120 square metres of bouldering up to 4m. Eight auto belays each carry three routes, and sessions are open to the local community as well as university members.
Shoreham-by-Sea
Adur Centre
Now operating as Adur Outdoor Activity Centre; the adurcentre.org.uk domain in the source index no longer resolves to the centre. The current site returned no readable content for facilities or prices.
Adur Outdoor Activity Centre
Outdoor activity centre in Shoreham-by-Sea. Its former web address adurcentre.org.uk now issues a permanent redirect to flelearning.co.uk, an unrelated organisation, so no centre details could be verified.
Brighton
Boulder Brighton
A dedicated bouldering centre in Portslade offering rock climbing without the hassle of ropes and harnesses, including a cave section. On-site shop and cafe, yoga and physio, plus coached adult sessions and youth and family instructed sessions.
High Sports Brighton
Climbing centre at Withdean Sports Complex in Brighton. The site states that as of July 2025 High Sports is owned and run by the same owners as Volume 1 Climbing in East Grinstead.
Oxford
Brookes Climb
University climbing centre on Oxford Brookes' Headington Campus with over 900sqm of climbing: three bouldering zones, a top-out area, a circuit board, 22 lead lines, 12 top-rope lines, three auto belays and an 11m lead tower with a 2.5m overhang. All users must complete a Climbing Participation Agreement before climbing.
Gallery Bouldering
Bouldering centre in Oxford open 8am to 10pm every day, with an earlier 7am opening on Mondays and Wednesdays. It has autobelays, the Clifftop Cafe, limited car parking and secure bicycle parking, and runs a free ten-minute induction for novices plus paid intro sessions, an improvers' course and supervised junior programmes.
Reading
Parthian Climbing Reading
Parthian Climbing Reading sits on the Robert Cort Industrial Estate and lists 120 top rope and auto belay routes, 75 lead routes and 100 boulder problems. It has a cafe and seating area, a gear shop, parking, and coaching plus kids' courses from age 3.
The Climbing Hangar Reading
An indoor bouldering venue on Stadium Way with a maximum wall height of 4.2m and regularly reset routes. It has training boards, a fully equipped gym, a coffee shop, a retail shop, on-site parking and bike racks; dogs are welcome.
Abingdon
Abingdon Climbing Wall
Climbing wall at Abingdon Sports and Leisure with mainly vertical climbing surfaces plus two overhanging lines and a slab line, described as suited to beginners and intermediates with all equipment available to use. Junior climbing courses and birthday party bookings are offered.
Milton Keynes
Englefield Green
Bishopsgate School Climbing Wall
School climbing wall at Bishopsgate School, Englefield Green. The domain did not resolve on any attempt, so nothing could be verified.
Calshot
Canterbury
Chimera Climbing Canterbury
Chimera Climbing Canterbury is a dedicated indoor bouldering centre about a ten minute walk from Canterbury East station. It runs separate opening hours for under 12s and offers private lessons and kids' sessions.
Chatham
Chimera Climbing Chatham
Dedicated bouldering centre on Chatham's dockside Quays, open to climbers aged 5 and up, with earlier closing hours for under-12s. Shoe and chalk hire and private lessons are available, and there is limited free on-site parking with paid options nearby.
Royal Tunbridge Wells
Chimera Climbing Tunbridge Wells
Chimera Climbing Tunbridge Wells is a bouldering-only centre on the High Brooms Industrial Estate, a five minute walk from High Brooms station. It has free on-site parking, changing rooms with showers and cafe seating, and runs kids sessions, private lessons and parties; under 12s can climb Mon-Fri 10am-6pm and weekends 9am-2pm.
Bognor Regis
Climb Bognor (Arena Sports Centre)
Climbing wall at the Arena Sports Centre in Bognor Regis, described by the centre as one of the largest in south-east England, standing over 9 metres high with overhangs, a traversing wall and over 50 square metres of bouldering walls. Term-time sessions listed include Wednesday beginners (8+) and intermediate (10+) evening sessions.
Chichester
Hayling Island
Climb Hayling
Indoor climbing wall on Hayling Island operated by Chichester College Group. The college website is behind a Cloudflare bot challenge and returned HTTP 403 on every attempt during this crawl, so no details could be verified.
Folkestone
F51
Climbing venue in Folkestone. The site returned HTTP 401 to our crawler on every attempt, so no details could be verified from source.
Romsey
Golden Gecko Climbing
Climbing centre on Romsey Industrial Estate offering bouldering and top-rope climbing with auto-belays. The site states there are no kit charges, and instructor-led and self-supervised auto-belay sessions are available.
Whitchurch
Hampshire Boulder (Hampshire Fitness Centre)
Bouldering wall inside Hampshire Fitness Centre near Whitchurch, with beginner, intermediate and advanced coloured circuits across slabs, overhangs and volumes, refreshed regularly. Sessions are capped at six climbers and climbing shoes are required; hire shoes are available at reception in limited sizes.
Chipping Norton
Kingham Hill School
Kingham Hill School's website describes its sports and co-curricular facilities but does not mention a climbing wall or any climbing facility open to the public.
Newbury
Northway Climbing Centre
Newbury climbing centre with a top rope and lead area (no auto-belays), a bouldering area and a 2016 Moonboard set at 40 degrees. Facilities include a gym, cafe and seating area, changing rooms and a bookable party room.
Wokingham
Lewes
Plumpton College Climbing Wall
Climbing wall associated with Plumpton College near Lewes. The college website lists an Adventure Education department but publishes no climbing wall page, public opening hours or prices.
Tonbridge
Prosser Memorial Climbing Wall (Tonbridge School)
Climbing wall at Tonbridge School's sports centre. The school website references an Olympic sports centre among its facilities but publishes no climbing wall page, public opening hours or prices.
Fareham
Red Spider Climbing
Bouldering centre at Fort Wallington in Fareham, part of the Spider Climbing group. Opens at 06:30 on Thursdays and 10:00 on other weekdays; concession rates require valid proof of ID and student Wednesdays are charged at the off-peak rate.
Sandown
Sandown Rocks
Climbing wall at The Bay CE School Sports Centre in Sandown, Isle of Wight, with a 12 metre 3D wall carrying 86 routes from 4a to 7a+ and an overhanging bouldering tunnel. Public sessions run on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings.
Slough
Slough Climbing Wall
Slough Climbing Wall, run by Climbing Club Kuluar Ltd, sits within the Everyone Active Ice Arena on Montem Lane and has routes from grade 3+ to 7a with new routes set every week. It hosts social climbing meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Winchester
Weybridge
Polegate
The Ordinary Climbers Gym
The Ordinary Climbers Gym in Polegate has a bouldering room with a dedicated cave, a roped training wall and a calisthenics weight room. It also has a cafe, free WiFi, an event space and a merchandise shop, and runs intro sessions, courses and an after school club.
East Grinstead
Volume 1 Climbing
A climbing centre on the Birches Industrial Estate in Felbridge, East Grinstead, advertising over 200 climbing routes. On site are gym and training facilities, a climbing shop and a vegetarian organic cafe, with kids' and adults' courses and squads.
Aylesbury
Waypoint
Bouldering centre in Aylesbury. Repeated requests to waypoint.rocks failed at the network level (connection reset), so no details could be verified from the venue's own site.
Freshwater
Wight Climbing (West Wight Sports & Community Centre)
Wight Climbing operates in the sports hall at West Wight Sports & Community Centre in Freshwater, with seven climbing lines of 6 to 7 metres suitable for beginners through to experienced climbers. There is a dedicated traversing wall and climbs are regularly updated.