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Chilswell Golf Course. Cumnor. (1900s)
The course appeared in the early 1900s.
At about the same time that the Chilswell course came into being there was another course in the vicinity called Berkeley (see separate entry on this website).
The only other evidence found so far for the Chilswell course was an article that appeared in the Oxford Journal in December 1900; “Mr McCann Fellow and tutor of University College, met with a rather serious accident on Friday night when crossing Folly Bridge on a bicycle, on his return from golfing at Chilswell Links. His machine skidded on one of the greasy tram metals and Mr McCann put a knee cap out of joint."
The course had disappeared by WW1.
A large crowd watching golfers putting out on the Chilswell course, it must have been a match of some importance. Could it be Chilswell Farm in the background?
The Ordnance Survey Map below from the 1900s shows the course and pavilion.
O.S. Map Revised 1897 to 1898; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1900}.
The Google Map below pinpoints the location of the course.