Hotshots Badminton Club

Castle Rushen High School, Arbory Road, Castletown, IM9 1RE

The name, Badminton, derives from the Duke of Beaufort’s Badminton House in Gloucestershire, but why or when remains unclear. As early as 1860, a London toy dealer named Isaac Spratt published a booklet entitled Badminton Battledore – A New Game, but no copy is known to have survived. An 1863 article in The Cornhill Magazine describes badminton as “battledore and shuttlecock played with sides, across a string suspended some five feet from the ground”.

Opening Hours

Thursdays: 6pm-8pm

(6-7pm years 4-6; 7-8pm years 7 upwards)