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If you're visiting London then you'll need to know where some of our best skate spots are. Some mentioned here have been around for decades, others are relatively new or have been renovated or altered. Of course, there are hundreds and hundreds of spots in London that you will have seen in videos and phototgraphs. We don't list all of them for a number of reasons. Firstly they're usually busts, secondly they don't last that long so we'd be wasting our time listing them and thirdly, half the fun of any spot is discovering it accidentally.

If you are in town and would like to know some of the hot spots at the moment ask the guys in the shop. Everybody here skates so we'll be able to tell you where and more importantly when to hits up some good unique terrain.
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Stockwell SW9
Located in South London on the Victoria Line...The best park in London. Hardly any grindable lips unless you count the wall and the vert quarter pipe that someone...
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Kennington SE11
One stop from Waterloo on the Northern Line Kennington is basically a rectangular bowl with no grindable lip until recently when...
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South Bank SE1
Right slap bang on the river Thames southbank is still one of the best naturally formed skate spots in the UK...
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Meanwhile I W10
Right over in West London and not far from Meanwhile I...
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Meanwhile II
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Bay 66 W11
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South Bank
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SOUTH BANK - WHAT'S THERE...
Cursed from afar and loved by the locals southbank is still one of the best naturally formed skate spots in the UK. Although a large portion has been temporarily cordoned off due to renovation work there's still plenty going on. A good selection of blocks one of which is angled all with metal edges. Plenty of good flatground. The large banks remain intact and a good percentage of the surrounding bars have been removed thus freeing up lines that have never been possible. Nearly always dry and lit at night time, Southbank is a great warm up spot or meeting place (provided you can escape its vortex)

INTERESTING FACT!
Billy Rohan was one of the first people to start cutting off the bars. Southbank is a great place to witness lemmings and 'heros'

HOW TO GET THERE
Southbank is located underneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the south side of the river very close to Waterloo Bridge. Nearest tube is Waterloo and also Waterloo mainline station. Just come out of either of those and head for the river.

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