Abraham Darby Sports & Leisure Centre

Information about Abraham Darby Sports & Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: 7h-20h
- monday: 6:30-22h
- tuesday: 6:30-22h
- wednesday: 6:30-22h
- thursday: 6:30-22h
- friday: 6:30-22h
- saturday: 7h-20h
Located in Madeley, Telford, the Abraham Darby Sports and Leisure Centre is the perfect place to take part in activities, join a fitness class or have a swim.
Please note: that a price increase will apply to a number of our activities from 1 January 2025. Details of the new charges can be found by clicking through to the activity. If you have a direct debit membership you will be contacted directly to advise you of any changes in your payment. Changes will not apply to block booking contract charges until April 2025.
Located in Madeley, Telford, the Abraham Darby Sports and Leisure Centre is the perfect place to take part in activities, join a fitness class or have a swim.
Abraham Darby played an important part in the Industrial Revolution. He developed a method of producing pig iron in blast furnaces that used charcoal.
Our comment from FitFit UK about Abraham Darby Sports & Leisure Centre:
Welcome to the Abraham Darby Sports & Leisure Centre, a well-loved facility located in Telford, United Kingdom. Our centre is known for its excellent amenities and a welcoming environment, ideal for fitness enthusiasts and families alike.
Some of the highlights include:
- Clean and well-maintained facilities with a friendly and helpful staff.
- A variety of fitness classes, including popular options like spin and aquafit.
- Child-friendly swimming lessons that are highly recommended by parents.
- Great parking options and accessibility for all users.
- A decent gym with good equipment, catering to a range of fitness levels.
While many visitors have shared positive experiences, there are a few suggestions for improvement:
- The session times for some classes could be better managed, ensuring users get the full duration.
- Occasional maintenance issues, like temperature control in changing rooms and the need for refurbishments.
- Current pricing may be a bit steep for some, but many agree that the quality of facilities justifies the cost.
Overall, the Abraham Darby Sports & Leisure Centre remains a fantastic place for both casual visits and dedicated fitness routines. Many visitors express their desire to return, praising the atmosphere and service provided by our dedicated team.
Abraham Darby Sports & Leisure Centre: Opinions
Negative experience: I go to aquifit it never starts at 830 they moving floor and instructor dose not starts it started 8.40 and she finished at 9.08 so the Sessionis only 30 minutes it so annoying I travel up here to get fit the class is good but needs to be the full session
Fantastic experience: Had a lunchtime swim here. The facilties were clean and user friendly and tge staff were very helpful
Positive experience: To mutch chlorine
Fantastic experience: It's a nice place, so serene
Fantastic experience: Fab
Fantastic experience: Visited out of school hours for a third party event. Looks like a nice environment.
Positive experience: Great council run gym. Swimming pool, gym facilities and classes. I usually go for spin class and it's cheap enough. Better than spending hundreds of pounds on branded gyms, id just head here!
Fantastic experience: Children go to weekly swimming lessons. Totally recommend to anyone
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities. My daughter loves swimming here.
Fantastic experience: Good basic fitness facilities
Fantastic experience: Its perfect
Fantastic experience: One of the lifeguards, Ethan, was very helpful when I came in to use the gym the other day. I was unsure of how some of the pieces of equipment worked. He must’ve seen me struggling and came over to show me the correct way, without me even having to ask! He is a credit to the leisure centre and deserves some recognition for being so amazing
Fantastic experience: Great parking and facilities
Positive experience: Helpful staff, sometimes above and beyond what you might expect. The 4 stars is because I'm tight and think the monthly fee could be reduced further for concessions. Disability friendly.
Fantastic experience: Great facility and service. Visited to enroll my son in swimming lessons and walked out with 13 lessons free under TLC. Reception very helpful, swimming coaches very good with kids and a quick assessment to enrol in the right class.
Fantastic experience: Decent swimming pool
Positive experience: Production was good.
Fantastic experience: Excellent sports hall for playing pickleball. Staff very helpful. Excellent lighting so we could play with the correct orange balls.
Positive experience: My daughter has swimming classes hear, it's an OK sports center, changing area needs another refurbishment.
Positive experience: We come swimming here every week. My 1 year old loves it but the water can be cold. We use the disabled changing room and there is plenty of room to get changed, wheeled chairs to use and a changing bed as well. There is also a seat in the shower. There is a lift to get into the pool if needed. I've also been to the adults only sessions and they are quiet and friendly, water still a bit cold. They split the pool into slow, medium and fast so you can choose which lane is suitable for you.
Fantastic experience: Staff very welcoming l loved it
Fantastic experience: Great leisure centre. The changing rooms that lead to the pool can be a little too warm though. Understand its warm for people coming out of the pool, but it makes me feel unwell while getting my child changed after his swimming lessons.
Negative experience: Ci sono stato 45 anni fa. Super!!
Fantastic experience: Me and a group of friends attend here quite regular now, hiring out the hall for Badminton. Staff always seem friendly and quick, setting things up reasonably priced and easy to book things in advanced on that website too.
Negative experience: Swimming pool ok but ile never take my son back for swimming lessons as he was shouted at for not swimming properly it was is second lesson sent email to complain but never heard anything
Fantastic experience: One of the cleanest leisure centre in Telford
Positive experience: Ok but a bit expensive (5,50£). Be aware that there is no soap in the showers.
Positive experience: Good swimming pool with attentive teachers, modern building with a large level access parking area and entrance with lift to the second level viewing area and gym. Only negative is the temperature upstairs is always to hot in the viewing area
Negative experience: Pool is very shallow.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic facilities Home to Telford Aqua swim club
Fantastic experience: Well used facility and very organised. We love the pool and fitness classes
Fantastic experience: My kids go to swim4life and the swimming lessons are really good, great price, love the swimming pool
Positive experience: Basic and small compared to some other gyms, but it's local and it does it's job.
Fantastic experience: The recent gym refurbishment is great, it's a small gym with limited free weight option but the machines of a good standard and effectively cater for all major muscle groups.
Fantastic experience: My local gym. It's currently being refurbished so looking forward to trying it out.
Positive experience: A nice swimming pool, but quite basic. The changing facilities look outdated and there was a few of the family-rooms blocked off which was annoying. Other than that, an affordable day out.
Negative experience: Poorly equipped, no power racks, no deadlift platform, no Olympic barbells, tons of other useful gym equipment missing, some useless machines you stand on and they shake, everything is crammed together far to many cardio machines.
Negative experience: After we’ve been travelling the country and using sports centre facilities to have showers we thought we’d visit Abraham Darby sports and leisure well to a disappointment when we ask the usual question is their a facility where we can pay to use the shower, as we were greeted with we’re not really sure I’ll ask my duty manager who was hiding out the back his answer was no because they have children in the swimming pool so I asked do they have a gym and use the showers in there still the answer was no I don’t know why the duty manager could not come and speak to us himself we have travelled this country in the past year and used about 50 sports or leisure centres and they have greeted us and welcomed us some even not charging us for a shower we will not be using this place again think before you do
Fantastic experience: Very good pool swiming
Negative experience: The receptionists were a tad unprofessional as the pool was full. Left a bad taste in our mouths when we left . Overall not a good experience
Fantastic experience: Great place for swim and to take kids
Fantastic experience: Nice place
Fantastic experience: Brilliant swimming pool and gym facilities for general public use
Fantastic experience: Always friendly there and willing to help, gym well stocked with equipment, pool nice temp and clean
Fantastic experience: Very well equipped and staffed for children learning to swim.
Fantastic experience: Take the kids swimming at fun and floats they love it
Fantastic experience: Great swimming lessons for kids
Negative experience: Really great pool but the place hasn't been cleaned in months.
Negative experience: Be careful signing up, as the only monthly payment seems to be in the form of a Direct Debit through a fixed 12 month contract, which cannot be cancelled. If going, pay per time for the first few months to check if it's for you, and if not, at least you can go somewhere else. I'm tied in for the rest of the year.
Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool and temperature good too
Positive experience: Went to our first family swim with our 20 mth old. Very clean. Good size pool, plenty of room. Only downside is the temperature in the changing rooms was chilly
Fantastic experience: Swimming facilities are great.
Fantastic experience: Swimming pool ideal for learners.
Fantastic experience: Good sports equipment
Positive experience: Was surprised at the lack of mask wearing and social distancing in a very busy enclose area
Fantastic experience: Wonderful Swimming facilities Thank you
Fantastic experience: Great service from reception as well as RPM instructor.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities at good prices. Don't forget to use your TLC card for discounts. Love the swimming. RECOMMENDED
Positive experience: I take my kids swimming here. 4,6 and 9. The cost is excellent with a TLC card, the changing rooms clean, lockers are 20p and it's non refundable. The pool is perfect as the depth is adjusted to 1m which works well for kids learning to swim.
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff. Good pool.
Fantastic experience: Brilliant friendly leisure centre. Very impressed with the facilities. Great for families
Positive experience: Good gym, everyone is kind and friendly (staff and other members). Sadly a little limited due to covid, understandably.
Negative experience: My daughters first swimming lesson back, she said the pool was very cold, as well as the changing rooms, since then she had come down with a really bad cold and a persistent cough, that’s caused her to miss a lot of school and her activities. NOT GOING BACK!!!
Fantastic experience: Absolutely fab,thanks
Fantastic experience: Back using aspirations. Covid precautions well set up. Good to be back, part of the return to normality.
Positive experience: Friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Very good swimming pool.
Fantastic experience: Very covid safe with directions on floor where to go plus sanitiser just in the door.staff checking folk in so they know who is in the building.
Fantastic experience: Brilliant always is classes are so good and great staff
Fantastic experience: Zumba class very enjoyable
Fantastic experience: The staff are all lovely and the organisation for swimming lessons to restart was fantastic. Our son was so happy being back at lessons. Thank you Sarah for making him smiley. He enjoyed his lesson.
Fantastic experience: My wife went to aqua class. The water was warm and Jo the instructor was excellent. She explained the routines and benefits of them. Music was great. Covid was covered. We were met at door and asked for our name. Hand sanitizer was very good and lifeguard met you as you entered into the changing area. Very clean and staff very helpful. She is booking for next week. It isJo's last week as she is covering for sandra. She would love Jo to be there on a permanent basis. Great work Telford and Wrekin. Thank you.
Negative experience: Updated from 5* to 2*. Just not good enough in this competitive market. If you're going to charge a premium, then we expect the air conditioning in spin studio to work - it was way too hot, bikes to be in good condition, the instructors microphone to work and the classes to start on time. Shower been 'out of order' for weeks. In the last week alone X2 classes been cancelled at last minute, despite instructors telling us the week before you'll be putting on cover. Instructors are great, friendly. But I will more than likely join another gym when contract is up.
Fantastic experience: Great gym. Nice and clean all the time, can get busy at peak times though. Good swimming pool and gym classes. Staff are nice and friendly. They have a good system to combat the covid situation.
Fantastic experience: Nice clean pool with extra cleaning measures and one way system for Covid.
Fantastic experience: They've done a fantastic job of ensuring social distancing, very clean and numbers are kept down in the pool. We have just had a lovely relaxing swim with no worries. Thanks staff
Fantastic experience: After no swimming since March, local pools not open, I searched for a facility that was open and came across this place. I’m so glad I did! They have cracked it! Staff are lovely, helpful and hard working. They clean down all the time and constantly monitor our safety. I’ve travelled 20 miles and would happily do it regularly. Well done everyone
Fantastic experience: We love swimming here, the staff are friendly and always interact with the kids. The facilities are clean and well maintained
Positive experience: Changing rooms and showers could do with a deep clean. Pool temp is quite chilly at the moment.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic swimming pool and really kind helpful staff.
Fantastic experience: Never been swiming here before staff professional so helpful especially through difficult times
Fantastic experience: First day back to the gym. Wonderful, very high standard of cleanliness. Felt safe.
Fantastic experience: Great gym
Fantastic experience: Love the gym
Positive experience: Reception staff could be more friendly
Fantastic experience: Good sports centre, excellent staff and instructors .
Positive experience: Clean quiet and great amenities
Fantastic experience: Went with my Grandson well organised clean and tidy, pleasant atmosphere.
Positive experience: Helpful, friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: Ace for the kids swimming. They can raise the entire pool to 0.8 meters deep. My 3 year old loves it because she can stand up everywhere.
Positive experience: Been to swimming pool wuth toddlers, nice staff, too cool in toilets and changing rooms, but generally clean
Fantastic experience: Attended for swimming gala fab set up with pool having adjustable floor
Fantastic experience: Great place for a swim, needs a little work though
Fantastic experience: This a great gym with wonderful, friendly and knowledgeable staff. It's clean and has excellent and well maintained equipment, and a good atmosphere.
Fantastic experience: Great for exercise and friendly classes
Negative experience: Not impressed at all, kids told they can't have a floating aid, turn around and they are giving them out, when I asked why he said cuz them kids can't swim, didn't even ask if mine could swim, that has the check to tell me I was back chatting him "15 years older that you" not impressed.
Fantastic experience: Rugby and sport facility
Negative experience: Used to enjoy Monday night's aqua, don't do it now
Fantastic experience: Great pool, great staff, lovely swim
Positive experience: Great gym, good facilities and friendly staff. Just wish I had a bit more discipline getting myself there more regularly!
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