If you had to live near an ice rink?

[Raywayy]

If you had to live near an ice rink anywhere in the uk, where would you live? I want to move within walking distance of an ice pad and I have no connection to anywhere. Please can you hit me with your excellent suggestions? 🙏

Another vote for Sheffield, Ice Sheffield is an excellent ice rink

Considering there's only about 50 ice rinks across the entire UK, no most places are not within walking distance of an ice rink. We live in a town and our nearest ice rink is about 12/13 miles away, which at rush hour is a 1.5 hour drive each way.
As far as I know, there's only one ice rink in Wales too.

Which other criteria would be relevant to your decision?

Would you be looking for work in the area you move to?

Would you be studying?

I was going to suggest Queens, but that would mean looking for a shared flat in London.

Two other places I might suggest would be Milton Keynes or Cambridge.

https://www.iceskating.org.uk/rink-finder

Another vote for Ally Pally!

Definitely not Tamworth. It's not a rink for a skater wanting patch ice. They do lessons but only to a basic level. Nottingham, Coventry or Solihull would meet the requirement for a decent rink.

Another vote for Chelmsford.

It seems quite a gamble to move house based on proximity to an ice-rink, which might close down if there aren't enough punters. If rink essential, then move to a very big city where there are a few.

East Kilbride not far from Glasgow. Lowish rents etc. https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1570832839318605824?s=20

Whitley Bay
Also near the coast and a lovely part of the North East

Basingstoke

Widnes in the North West has a planet ice

NOT Gillingham Kent

Chelmsford. Lots of nearby homes, eg Springfield area which is nice or the town centre.

Dundonald

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No, they're really not.

Doncaster has a large ice rink although I wouldn't recommend it as a place to live. So does Sheffield.

the rink in Cardiff is in a lovely location. Down in Cardiff Bay. The world is your oyster in terms of budget for accommodation there….. all price brackets available within a 45 min walk

Housing in Slough very affordable for the south eat, also good links to Heathrow

https://www.everyoneactive.com/centre/slough-ice-arena/

South East

Widnes, is v cheap to live in and has good major transport links. The ice rink is set amongst other leisure facilities and shops, so pretty much everything will be on your doorstep if you don’t drive. There are some nice outdoor spaces, locally too.

If you didn't mind getting public transport. Altrincham opens up most of Manchester. Altrincham is expensive. Loads of brilliant places on the tram route.

That's our nearest one, we are near Clitheroe - was looking at where a 45 min radius got you to as I wondered if you could get to Wilpshire or Mellor but not apparently. Agree OP that will be cheap.

Poor Blackburn, I like to think of the mini hill as an homage to Pendle! It will be cheap to live there and op can do her shopping at the big Asda.

Nottingham city centre and plenty of house shares in Sneinton/Sherwood/West Bridgford.

As a couple of PP have mentioned, Swindon ice rink is surrounded by housing, you have Grange Park, Westlea and Shaw, right on the doorstep