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Middleton-in-Teesdale Golf Club, Durham. (1908 - 1920s)
The club first appeared 1908.
It was reported in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph in February 1908 that construction had started on a nine-hole golf course at Middleton-in-Teesdale, the links were in a most accessible district.
The nine-hole course opened on August 10th 1910.
Advert which includes a mention for the golf course in June 1911.
Leeds Mercury Tuesday 27 June 1911. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Leeds Mercury Tuesday 27 June 1911. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
In 1914 the secretary was Alfred Howe, Rock, Villa, Middleton-in-Teesdale. A 9-hole course situated on the moor. The club had a membership of 30. The entry fee was 5/- and the subs 15/-. Visitors’ fees were 1/- a day and 4/- a week. Sunday play was allowed without caddies. The railway station was ¼ mile away.
Adverts for the golf course appeared until the outbreak of WW1.
The course on the Ordnance Survey Map Revised 1912 to 1913 © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1919}
Location of the Middleton course.
Grid reference NY93780,24175, co-ordinates 393780,524175.
Middleton-in-Teesdale Golf Club disappeared in the early 1920s.