Editing St Neots (section)

==Sport and leisure==
[[File:Dragon Boat Race 2011.jpg|thumb|Dragonboat racing]]
St Neots has a semi-professional [[non-League football]] team, [[St Neots Town F.C.]], who play at Rowley Park Stadium. The club are currently members of the [[United Counties League]] Premier Division South. They play at Premier Plus Stadium, Kester Way.<ref name = footie>https://theucl.co.uk/clubs/stneotstown/ United Counties League website: St Neots Town FC retrieved 23 April 2025</ref><ref name = town-fc>https://stneotstownfc.co.uk/ St Neots Town FC Website retrieved 24 April 2025</ref>

The town also has a [[Rugby football|rugby]] club, [[St Neots RUFC]], a rowing club, [[St Neots Rowing Club]], two [[Dragon Boat]] teams and St Neots Table Tennis club.<ref name = rugger>https://www.stneotsrugbyclub.com/ St Neots Rugby Club website, retrieved 24 April 2025</ref><ref name = rowing>https://stneotsrc.co.uk/ St Neots Rowing Club website retrieved 24 April 2025</ref><ref name = dragon>https://stneotsdbt.co.uk/ St Neots Dragon Boat Racing website retrieved 24 April 2025</ref><ref name = tabletennis>https://stneotsttc.com/ St Neots Table Tennis Club website retrieved 24 April 2025</ref>

Huntingdonshire District Council operates a leisure centre complex in Eynesbury with an indoor swimming pool, gym, squash courts, sports hall, tennis courts, all weather pitches, creche, and cafe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oneleisure.net/centres/st-neots/|title = St Neots &#124; One Leisure}}</ref> The site is part of the council's 'One Leisure' brand, which has other sites in Huntingdon and St Ives.

[[File:St Neots duck pond and Ambiance Cafe.jpg|thumb|The duck pond and the Ambiance Cafe in the Riverside Fields, St Neots]]
Riverside Park is an attractive public green space alongside the River Great Ouse, close to the town centre, incorporating Regatta Meadow. Footpaths in the park were upgraded in August 2024 and a wild flower meadown has been created in part of the area. is close to the town centre and covers {{convert|72|acre|ha}} "with a beautiful mile-long waterside frontage".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://huntingdonshire.gov.uk/leisure/parks-nature-reserves-and-green-spaces/riverside-park-st-neots/|title = Riverside Park St Neots}}</ref> The park has a cafe, parking for 250 cars, a large children's activity area, a skate park, and a miniature railway.<ref name = ambiance>https://www.visit-stneots.co.uk/things-to-do/listing/ambience-cafe/ Ambiance Cafe entry at Visit St Neots website</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.skateparks.co.uk/cambridgeshire/st-neots-skatepark/|title = St. Neots Skatepark - Guide to St. Neots Skatepark|date = 8 October 2014}}</ref> [[Riverside Miniature Railway]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.riversiderailway.co.uk/|title=Riverside Miniature Railway – Please scroll down}}</ref> During the summer concerts are occasionally held on Sunday afternoons in the park.

Barford Road Pocket Park in Eynesbury,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://huntingdonshire.gov.uk/leisure/parks-nature-reserves-and-green-spaces/barford-road-pocket-park/|title = Barford Road Pocket Park}}</ref> hosts weekly [[parkrun]] and junior parkrun events.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parkrun.org.uk/pocket/|title=Pocket parkrun {{!}} Pocket parkrun|website=www.parkrun.org.uk|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parkrun.org.uk/riversidestneots-juniors/|title=Riverside junior parkrun, St Neots {{!}} Riverside junior parkrun, St Neots|website=www.parkrun.org.uk|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref>

To the north of the town is [[Paxton Pits Nature Reserve]] providing walks through its {{convert|77|ha|acre|disp=flip}} of lakes, meadow, grassland, scrub and woodland. The reserve is famous for its nightingales and cormorants and is home to a wide variety of other birds, insects, mammals and flora.<ref name = paxton-pits>https://paxton-pits.org.uk/ Paxton Pits Nature Reserve website retrieved 24 April 2025</ref>

[[File:Market Day at St Neots.jpg|thumb|The weekly market at St Neots]]
The Rowley Arts Centre was opened in May 2014 and includes a six-screen cinema operated by [[Cineworld]] and a complex with three restaurants and a gym. It was named after Peter Rowley, an American playwright, author and critic who was Lord of the Manor of St Neots and who donated £1{{nbsp}}million towards the development from the profit he made from selling the land on which the Love's Farm development was built.<ref name = cineworld>https://www.cineworld.co.uk/cinemas/st-neots/084#/buy-tickets-by-cinema?in-cinema=084&at=2025-04-24&view-mode=list Cineworld website retrieved 24 April 2025</ref> The complex was subsequently purchased as an investment by Huntingdonshire District Council for £7.6 million in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/district-council-completes-purchase-of-rowley-arts-centre-in-st-neots-1-6023400|title = District council confirms purchase of Rowley Arts Centre in St Neots|date = 30 April 2019}}</ref>

St Neots has a ten pin bowling centre with 16 lanes, known as Eat N Bowl.<ref name = bowling>https://www.eatnbowl.co.uk/ Eat N Bowl website, retrieved 24 April 2025</ref>

There are two golf courses: St Neots Golf Club<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home - St. Neots Golf Club |url=https://www.sngc.co.uk/ |website=www.sngc.co.uk}}</ref> and Wyboston Lakes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wybostonlakes.co.uk/golf.aspx|title=Golf Course in Bedfordshire &#124; Wyboston Lakes Resort|website=www.wybostonlakes.co.uk}}</ref>