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Conington Castle Golf Course, Huntingdonshire. (1890s)
The reports below shows evidence of the golf course that appeared in the 1890s.
Report on the course in July 1893.
From "Golf" Friday 21 July 1893.
From "Golf" Friday 15 September 1893; "Mr H M Bell last week reduced the record of the Conington Castle course to 83. He played all his approaches with one of Anderson's new irons, in which the shaft enters a socket immediately behind the point of impact, and not at the heel of the club as in Carruthers patent."
"Golf" Friday 5 January 1894. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Results of matches against Huntingdon Golf Club played in December 1894.
"Golf" Friday 4 January 1895. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The 1900s Ordnance Survey Map below shows Conington Castle and grounds.
O.S. Map Revised 1900; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1902}.
Picture of Conington Castle prior to WW1.
Conington Castle was demolished in 1953.