The Castle Climbing Centre

The Castle Climbing Centre Climbing Centre, Café, Shop, & Community Garden all in one unique building - The Castle.
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SAVE THE DATE 🗓️Our annual Summer Garden Party will be on Sunday, 19th July between 12 and 6pm. You can expect climbing ...
22/06/2026

SAVE THE DATE 🗓️

Our annual Summer Garden Party will be on Sunday, 19th July between 12 and 6pm. You can expect climbing mini comps, garden workshops, craft stalls, food vendors and tunes in the courtyard. Try top roping and autos for free with an open instructor session and tour the garden with our team of growers. The garden party is a fantastic chance for individuals and families to explore the connection between climbing, nature and sustainability that we’ve nurtured at The Castle. We’d love to see our community, old and new, there!
🌞🌱

Free for members
No ticket required
Entry included in a day pass

18/06/2026

Next SunBloc Saturday 27th June, 12-4pm. Expect some wicked tunes along with our Castle-made ice cream, Send-Zings, Bee Kind brushes and a chance to win your next bag of chalk from Rock Technologies! We’ll see you there🧴🌞

16/06/2026

New course on offer!

Bouldering Fundamentals 2 is designed for those climbing in and around circuits 4-5, perfect for helping you develop more advanced techniques and applying them to competition-style and dynamic boulders.
Ben, one of the course coaches, talks us through some of the elements that make up the course and what you can expect to achieve by the end of it.

For more details and to book, check out the courses page of our website.

We are looking for someone to join our Reception team!🧗‍♀️🧗‍♂️Reckon you’d be a good fit? Find out all the details and a...
10/06/2026

We are looking for someone to join our Reception team!🧗‍♀️🧗‍♂️

Reckon you’d be a good fit? Find out all the details and apply through the link in our bio. Deadline 15th June.

At Reception, you will be ensuring our customers receive a very warm welcome. The role includes providing information about the centre, ensuring the correct forms and paperwork are filled in, or offering information on our climbing facilities. You’ll also help with any questions regarding Memberships, the Garden, and more. There will also be opportunities to work across the other Front of House areas as part of the role.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic team member to join us 20 hours a week, with availability and willingness to work evenings, weekends, and holidays.

This is a part-time permanent role paid at LLW (£14.8/h).

Know a young person with an insatiable appetite for climbing? Comp Squad Tryouts will be taking place next month! Find o...
10/06/2026

Know a young person with an insatiable appetite for climbing? Comp Squad Tryouts will be taking place next month! Find out more using the link in our bio.

Since the Squad was launched in 2009 we have had multiple teams progress through our pathway and it has been a joy to watch them cultivate a love for climbing, with many remaining active climbers for life. We have also produced successful competition climbers, some of whom have gone on to win national events and even compete for their country on the international stage.

Aprons on gang, new Crux Book is up. Thank you as always to our fantastic team of setters who worked tirelessly through ...
08/06/2026

Aprons on gang, new Crux Book is up. Thank you as always to our fantastic team of setters who worked tirelessly through that heatwave to cook up some belters. If you didn’t manage to send during SunBloc, here’s your chance to study that beta (as well as a variation or two)👩‍🍳

Setters:lucashall




and Kat

Shout out to our staff climbers and for the steep send!

04/06/2026

Only three tickets left on the beginners dynamic movement workshop!
Catch Louis Parkinson at The Castle for an afternoon of workshops. Focusing on dynamic movement, tactics and projecting, Louis’ coaching will put a pep in your step and have you lasche-ing up the walls in no time. Small groups and specially set problems, check out the schedule below:

30/06
1.00-2.10pm Beginners Dynamic Movement
2.20-3.30pm Intermediate Dynamic Movement
3.50-4.00pm Projecting, Tactics and Mindset

Book now through our app or find the link in our bio.

01/06/2026

Thank you to all who came out on Saturday, we had a blast! Hope you enjoyed the homemade ice-cream and the honey-melon Send-zings. Next one is June 27th (weather dependant). See you then🧴☀️

We’re very excited to announce that on Monday 29th June we’ll be hosting athlete, coach and all-round rockstar Louis Par...
27/05/2026

We’re very excited to announce that on Monday 29th June we’ll be hosting athlete, coach and all-round rockstar Louis Parkinson for an afternoon of coaching workshops. Focusing on dynamic movement, mindset and projecting, these sessions will equip participants with an array of tactics and skills. We’ll have problems set specially for these workshops and participants will have the area to themselves to really get to grips with dynamic climbing.

Members get 25% off. Small groups means limited places, check the link in our bio and grab your ticket!

21/05/2026

Have you caught our YouTube video yet? Check the link in our bio to watch, and read all about the history below:

The wave was built by Colin Rockley in 1995 and was v2 of one he had built in Cliff’s Barn in Lancashire. He was just trying to establish Rockley Climbing Walls as a new business and he was keen to produce a showpiece for The Castle when it first opened as the first modern roped climbing centre in London.
Steep cellar walls were common in the northern climbing heartlands but this was the first thing like it in the SE of England and Colin wanted to make a statement with the impressive curves. Normal plywood can’t be bent to these shapes, so it was built on a steel frame with stub arms and four sheets of thin ply bent over it and glued together to form the distinctive wave.
It’s first incarnation was in the Engine House where the top rope slabs are now. It was bare wood and all the holds were also wood. Most were made by Garry Wickam, a local climber and sculptor, out of a variety of hard woods. Most were smooth organic shapes and some were even French polished!

The effect was something that looked like it belonged in the Tate Modern not a climbing centre!
Initially people made up their own problems, but the holds were named for reference. A bunch of keen board climbers had an afterhours naming party where the names got wilder as more beer was consumed. Problems were recorded in a book and denoted by a list of the hand a footholds used.
Only a few months after this we decided to build the top rope slabs so the Wave was dismantled and moved to the Boiler House. It was the only climbing in that part of the building at first. Initially it was located where the Fang arch is now but when the Stacks were built in 2000 the Wave moved round the corner to the location it’s in now.
The general feeling amongst users was that the Wave was too steep so, when it was installed in the Cave we reduced the angle by about 5 degrees. (Continued in comments)

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The Castle Climbing Centre, Green Lanes, Stoke Newington
London
N42HA

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 10pm
Tuesday 8am - 10pm
Wednesday 8am - 10pm
Thursday 8am - 10pm
Friday 8am - 10pm
Saturday 9am - 8pm
Sunday 9am - 8pm

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020 8211 7000

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