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World-class facilities

Facilities hired and used by professional clubs
Millfield has a stunning 240-acre due to the quality of the playing
surface. Our first team pitch is
campus in Street, Somerset in the equivalent to an EPPP Academy
South West of England. Our facilities Category 1 standard (shown below).
are unmatched by any other We have five other training surfaces
school’s main football playing 11 on the main senior campus (Keen’s
independent school, and include a
400-metre athletics track, indoor
golf and cricket centres and an
Elm, lower Butleigh and Junior Field)
Olympic-size swimming pool. The
and on big occasions we host our
pitches are based at Kingweston, a Pitches and teams on the Sir Gareth Edwards
pitch to create a stadium
short drive away. We have 11 full size first team pitch atmosphere for the students (right).
football pitches which are often equivalent to
EPPP Academy
Category 1 Playing facilities are complimented
standard by two gyms (Jubilee and Pool
Shelf), a recovery pool and two
teaching spaces.

Our Head of Grounds, Craig Richardson,
who previously tended the pitch at Bristol
City FC, was awarded Sky Bet League One
Groundsman of the Year for the Ashton
Gate pitch in 2006 and 2015.
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