The Northern Lawn Tennis Club
Information about The Northern Lawn Tennis Club
Opening hours
- sunday: 8h-20h
- monday: 7h-23h
- tuesday: 7h-23h
- wednesday: 7h-23h
- thursday: 7h-23h
- friday: 7h-23h
- saturday: 8h-23h
With 21 tennis courts, 6 squash courts, 2 padel courts, 2 well-equipped gyms, a spacious fitness studio and a comfortable lounge bar and eatery, The Northern offers competition-level sports and leisure facilities in a beautiful setting.
Conveniently located in the lively and fashionable South Manchester suburb of Didsbury, the Northern is only five minutes’ drive from the M56 and M60 motorways and we couldn’t be closer to the West Didsbury tram station.
The Northern is the longest established racquets and fitness club in the region, with a proud history of success in both tennis and squash. We've had some big names play on our courts, but we're very much a grounded, welcoming club and love to share it with our local community.
Our comment from FitFit UK about The Northern Lawn Tennis Club:
The Northern Lawn Tennis Club, located in Manchester, is a vibrant sporting community that caters to tennis and racket sport enthusiasts alike. With a range of excellent facilities, including newly resurfaced tennis courts, grass and clay courts, padel courts, and well-maintained squash courts, it is considered one of the best venues in the northwest for sports.
Families love this club, particularly for the children's tennis lessons and the welcoming atmosphere. The club also offers a variety of coaching options and classes for members of all skill levels, ensuring everyone can find a way to enjoy their time here.
Aside from sports, visitors appreciate the comfortable bar and café area that serves good food and beverages, making it a great place to unwind with friends after a game. The facility is well-managed with friendly staff who are praised for their helpfulness.
Some users have pointed out that membership fees can be on the pricier side, and there have been occasional complaints regarding additional charges and parking fines. However, the overall feedback highlights the club's dedication to providing an enjoyable experience for players and spectators alike.
With a focus on creating a community spirit, The Northern Lawn Tennis Club is highly recommended for anyone looking to engage in sports or simply enjoy a lovely day out.
The Northern Lawn Tennis Club: Opinions
Positive experience: Lovely courts and good facilities etc. - bit pricey for me tho and lots of sand and you'll graze yourself pretty easily - not played indoors or on the grass/clay yet tho!
Fantastic experience: Brilliant club
Fantastic experience: Great club for families, especially for children.
Fantastic experience: A perfect little community within our community.
Thank you Lily, that’s a lovely comment ❤️
Positive experience: Nice courts and plenty of them for tennis and squash and decent food. 2 paddle courts also, but extremely slow racket restringing.
Fantastic experience: Fabulous members' classes, which are brilliant, staff excellently clean and helpful. Just live it...
Thanks Jolivia. We really appreciate your lovely words and will pass on to the team.
Positive experience: Handy and nice coffee area at reasonable prices
Fantastic experience: Great facility for padel. One of my favs.
Fantastic experience: great place to learn and play tennis. Really enjoy the individual lesson with Mark.
Fantastic experience: Nice place, I tried paddle board with friends. Nice game and nice amenities, all very nice ☺️
Thank you for your kind review! We're so glad you enjoyed your time and the padel game with friends. It's always great to hear that our guests appreciate the game and our amenities. We look forward to welcoming you back soon!
Negative experience: Played Padel tennis for one hour. Was unaware of the need to pay for parking and received a £60 fine. The Northern were unable to remove this fine. Unacceptable.
Dear Gary, Thank you for your feedback, and we are sorry to hear about your experience regarding parking. We have clear signs at the car park entrance, within the car park, and in the clubhouse reminding all visitors of the need to register for parking. There is also a note on our bookings and additional signs as you exit. We provide two car registration devices within reception for ease of use. Please note that the car park is managed by an independent company, and we do not have the ability to dismiss parking tickets. This is why we have taken steps to ensure extensive signage and registration devices are in place to help avoid any issues. Best regards, The Northern Lawn Tennis Club
Fantastic experience: Amazing place, the best atmosphere
Fantastic experience: Great tennis club lots of facilities and amazing children's tennis lessons
Negative experience: Only been twice and both been poor Seems like every opportunity they can they put in an extra charge Paddle not included, ended up costing £65 for an hour between 4 people £10 to rent a racquet for an hour on a concrete court with plants growing out of it that's not been sweeper since it was opened in 1881
We apologise that your visit fell under your expectations. Booking a court as a non member without your own balls and racquets is not going to be a cheap experience. Value in a members club is best taken advantage by those wanting to join the club, especially if you fall into the category of our U25 and U30 membership. Should this be your wish we can consider waiving your guest fees.
Fantastic experience: Great squash facilities and the perfect venue for several racket sports. The club includes some of the best facilities in the north west for playing tennis, squash, racketball, and padel. There is also a gym and racket shop onsite. . The lawnroom provides a good range of food and drink options and some really call tennis nostalgia. Both pool and darts are available in the main bar + outdoor seating. . If I still lived in south Manchester I'd join the Northern.
Fantastic experience: Great place to play padel. Nice social area for drinks and chatting with friends.
Fantastic experience: The best club in the North! The newly surfaced tennis courts are excellent. Even better are the grass courts in the summer. The padel courts are excellent, whilst also having a roof to protect you from the conditions. They have indoor and grass tennis courts, squash and a gym. The coaching on offer is superb!
Fantastic experience: As a tennis coach the facilities here are second to none ... all surfaces of courts from grass to clay plus all weather plus indoor courts . investment in paddle courts also available plus coaching in this area as well. Main stream Gym with high end equipment and trainers . A superb bar area with comfortable seating and patio area for drinks/ food , can also cater for functions such as Birthdays / children's parties with DJ entertainment. The Northern is a superb place for all things sport plus much more... Great staff and well managed. 5 stars all day long ..
Fantastic experience: My son and his best friend go to the Northern for tennis lessons. They absolutely enjoy the session, and the coaches have been amazing. Lovely place to hang around, especially the cafe. Recommend this place
Negative experience: The membership includes not a lot really, padel courts, not included. Indoor courts not included. So basic gym and wet courts in Winter.
Fantastic experience: Went to check out the new padel courts. Looking good! Padel courts are in and play great!
Fantastic experience: My son goes here to learn Tennis.
Negative experience: Very overrated place. Synthetic tennis courts are awful. No international Grand Slam or tour-level competition that I am aware of played on such a surface. Tennis games have a really fake feel to them. Not worth your time or money.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities for tennis and other sports
Fantastic experience: The courts are quite well cared. There might be a downside in the winter on the availability of courts as there are only 3 indoor courts. Facilities are good, including the bar restaurant, gym and squash courts.
Positive experience: Great for playing squash
Fantastic experience: Love this place. Always a lovely atmosphere. Friendly and helpful staff
Negative experience: Terrible Management. NEVER try and cancel your membership in person as they don't proceed with it, still charge you (until you finally notice) and when you explain the situation they have their condescending replies ready backed up with their scam like responses saying you have no written evidence, although funnily they forget to mention that in person.
Negative experience: Your beef burger patties are very poor quality, they are so bad they are inedible, rather than serving a double beef burger can you please just serve a single and make them excellent quality? I would like to bring my family for a meal and a drink, please do let me know if you change so I can change this review to hopefully a five star, thanks.
Fantastic experience: Great club! Even better to see cheetham hill squash club winning!
Fantastic experience: Great set up, atmosphere and classes
Fantastic experience: Best tennis club in the North West
Fantastic experience: Beautiful club with many grass courts, clay courts and carpete courts. Well decorated and charming
Fantastic experience: nice place for have fun
Fantastic experience: Great tennis club and cafe
Fantastic experience: Wish we had something similar in CH45
Fantastic experience: Nice tidy clean well presented tennis club.
Fantastic experience: Great on a Friday evening with the family for some drinks and pizza
Fantastic experience: Good venue under utilised...
Fantastic experience: Don't miss it, strongly recommended it
Fantastic experience: Son had a squash comp here, great facilities all staff and everyone to be fair friendly, food and drinks reasonable prices highly recommended
Negative experience: - Misleading information from different members of staff - Too busy and unpredictability when able to participate in socials due to such high demand
Fantastic experience: Great tennis courts and gym facilities. Highly recommended
Fantastic experience: Perfect squash/tennis club, really friendly and helpful staff
Fantastic experience: Great place lovely staff
Positive experience: Convenient location, with great indoor courts
Fantastic experience: Great club for tennis and squash
Fantastic experience: Grass courts in excellent condition.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic staff with lovely grounds
Fantastic experience: Excellent good real ales
Fantastic experience: Really nice tennis and squash club with a small but furbished gym facility. The pub area is really good if you are watching a football game or just drinking a pint with a few friends. The staff is extremely nice and quick!
Positive experience: Great family fun.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful atmosphere, great courts, great people and great standard of tennis. A really established club with loads for everyone. Highly recommend.
Fantastic experience: Enjoyed the game Very friendly and welcoming staff and members .
Fantastic experience: Tennis, squash and fitness but also has lively cafe with covered terrace and helpful staff. Great to hang out between games or classes. Friendly dogs on a lead also welcome to stay for when eating. Can also be booked for parties and dinners. Excellent breakfast menu with v tasty veg option. Covered patio area with tennis or football coverage.
Fantastic experience: First time and a positive experience.
Fantastic experience: Great quality tennis club, excellent clay and grass courts, great environment and service!!
Fantastic experience: Nice friendly place.
Positive experience: Nice tennis grounds. Plenty of space. Lovely bar area for food and drink. Coaches are good too.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic tennis club. Nice people and great courts.
Fantastic experience: Good club, lots of coaching available, staff friendly. Clientele very Didsbury
Fantastic experience: Nice indoor tennis court for kids class
Positive experience: My group comes here every so often for our socials. We're trying to form an eco village in Manchester. This is where we meet to chat about that. Nice and quiet, and there's beer. That's what we want.
Positive experience: Best tennis club in Manchester
Fantastic experience: Great tennis courts very clèan
Fantastic experience: Nice tennis coaching. Membership is bit expensive compared to other premium clubs and the service provided. Very friendly and welcoming staff.
Fantastic experience: The place to play tennis in Manchester
Fantastic experience: Great
Fantastic experience: Visited for a junior squash tornament. It was really well organised and liked the fact the kids did the scorning.
Positive experience: Very well organised for the tennis tournament. The segregation of members and non members during competition week is awful, especially when the weather is wet. It was terrible to see ticket holders herded into a single tent packed like sardines while members relaxed in a large bar and restaurant is not acceptable in this day.
Positive experience: An excellent tennis venue. A place for pro tournaments, which were being held while on our visit.
Positive experience: My only complaint is that they are coaches who creat quality tournaments in the first place,and you guys ought to celebrate coaches attending tournaments,instead of kicking one out due to be a refugee coach lacking ticket fee.
Positive experience: Nice modern racket sports club with clean changing facilities and comfortable lounge area
Positive experience: Enjoyed it
Positive experience: Quite good.
Fantastic experience: Great place to play tennis
Fantastic experience: Amazing
Fantastic experience: Very friendly staff and the food was a good standard
Fantastic experience: Great food eggs royal wad ace
Fantastic experience: Calm and classy place.
Positive experience: Very entertaining
Fantastic experience: Great place with good courts , tennis and squash, and good food in the bar
Fantastic experience: Nice.
Fantastic experience: Very welcoming.
Fantastic experience: Liz and Rick excellent for cycling and gym. Andy the Tennis coach is very good. The yoga classes are excellent stretchy after sports. Quiet cafe lounge ideal for my business meetings.
Positive experience: I officiated as an umpire at a recent international professional tennis tournament at The Northern, on Palatine Road and found the people most courteous and friendly. Squash is also played at this venue.
Fantastic experience: Great place to watch tennis.
Fantastic experience: Great
Positive experience: A great place to go to.
Fantastic experience: Great location and tennis/squash facilities.
Positive experience: Very elegant venue with some great food.
Fantastic experience: A great club. I have been a member off and on since the 1980's and found it friendly and professional. you can always get a game - no matter your level and the gym has all you need.
Positive experience: Nice
Fantastic experience: Didsbury kickboxing and grappling. Best training,skills and instructor. Sambo, combat sambo, fma.
Fantastic experience: I have been coming here to play tennis for a long time. Chai coached me and taught me to play tennis in the squads.
Positive experience: Good tennis club. Seems very homey.
Fantastic experience: Great facilities, friendly place.
Fantastic experience: It's a very nice private club. Only came here for a squash tournament. The food is great and the staff are amazing. It's a perfect location, right next to a tram stop.
Positive experience: Great squash club. Always enjoy my visit.
Fantastic experience: Super time at a private 90th Birthday Party on 7th Oct 17. As a tennis fan this a must visit tennis club. Will go to see the next ITF grass tourney in 2018..
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