Ebchester Boat House sits on the River Derwent in a picturesque setting on National Trust land, serving as the base for one of the region's oldest rowing communities.

Rowing has taken place here since at least 1872, and Ebchester Amateur Rowing Club was formally established around 1876, with the first boathouse constructed shortly after.

Successive buildings replaced earlier structures, with the current facility tracing its development through community and partnership efforts in the 2010s.

The stretch of water here is reputedly one of the shortest of any rowing club in the UK at around 300 yards, but its shallow depth of roughly three to four feet makes it well suited to beginners, recreational paddlers, and those learning to handle racing sculls.

After a gap of several decades, rowing returned to Ebchester in 2019 when the club was reconstituted and affiliated to British Rowing, with donated boats enabling activity on the river once more.