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Cheltenham Archers

What ever you want to achieve, archery is a sport that all ages and abilities can enjoy.

Horace Ford

About Us Cheltenham Archers

An introduction to Cheltenham Archers

Cheltenham Archers was founded in 1857 by the greatest target archer of all time, Horace Ford. Horace Ford was twelve times national champion and innovator of many of the archery techniques still employed today.

Since the days of Horace Ford, the club has enjoyed a long tradition of fine archers and is fortunate to count amongst its members past and present Master Bowmen, County Champions, County Team Members and fully qualified Coaches.

Cheltenham Archers enjoy excellent facilities at Cheltenham Racecourse and the targets are permanently out at all distances, and is regarded within the archery community as one of the best grounds in the county.

Archers can use the field any day at any time and should the weather turn inclement there is a comfortable clubhouse with toilets, tea and coffee making facilities.

The clubhouse is also used periodically for equipment evenings where novices can get help with string making, fletching and, for the not so accurate, arrow straightening!

Archers of all disciplines are welcome at Cheltenham Archers, compound, recurve, barebow, longbow and other traditional bows all have their enthusiastic followers at the club, with many members proficient in more than one discipline. In the winter when we are forced indoors we hire a sports hall at a local school, meet for social events and fun shoots to keep the competitive spirit going.

The Annual Dinner is popular and gives members the opportunity to sample one of the many excellent restaurants Gloucestershire has to offer.

Indoor winter practice takes place twice a week on Monday evening (7pm to 9pm) and Friday evening (7pm to 9pm) at a nearby school from October until Spring, with the Junior Club using a Saturday morning slot between 10am-12am. More recently Monday nights have been used for indoor beginner's course so the hall is closed to our members at this time.

Many of Cheltenham Archers shoot competitively and have been very successful, other members choose to shoot at club level and enjoy unwinding at the range. What ever you want to achieve, archery is a sport that all ages and abilities can enjoy.

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