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Campus Pool is a
Campus Pool is a skatepark
A skatepark, or skate park, is a purpose-built recreational environment made for skateboarding, BMX, Freestyle scootering, scootering, and aggressive inline skating. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, handrails, funboxes, vert ramps, stairw ...
and former swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable Human swimming, swimming and associated activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built abo ...
in Bishopsworth
Bishopsworth is a suburban neighbourhood and wards of the United Kingdom, electoral ward of the city of Bristol. It is located in the south of the city and has a high proportion of council housing. Local facilities include shops and pubs, a pu ...
, Bristol
Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by t ...
, UK.
History
The former Bishopsworth Swimming Pool closed in 2012, following the opening of Hengrove Park Leisure Centre. In November 2014 it was announced that the building would be reused to house an indoor skatepark. Work to build the skatepark began in March 2015. It opened in July 2015.Operation
The facility is leased byBristol City Council
Bristol City Council is the local authority for the city of Bristol, in South West England. Bristol has had a council from medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1996 the council has been a unitary authority, being ...
rent-free It is operated by Campus Skateparks, a social enterprise.
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