Back in the clubhouse
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Back in the clubhouse
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 19 Jun 2014
Minehead Golf Club, on the north coast of Somerset, offering players the challenge of links play with some parkland features. In 1882, a Scotsman (naturally, perhaps) named Dr Clark moved to the area and initiated the creation of a course on an old rabbit warren here. The original course was fashioned on part of the Luttrell estate for a small annual fee; it was a nine-hole affair but was later increased to a full eighteen in 1901. An old cottage was converted into the first clubhouse but a newer one was built by the club pro near the eighteenth hole which was eventually expanded into the current facility. Interestingly enough, the clubhouse had a telephone installed back in 1905 but only had an electricity supply by 1959.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.208011
Longitude
-3.455806