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Plowden Golf Club, Shropshire. (1908 - WW1)
The club first appeared in 1908.
The secretary was Roger Plowden, Lydbury North. The family where the local landowners at Plowden Hall, near the village called Plowden, which had a railway station on the Bishop’s Castle railway. The club played matches against Wellington Golf Club.
Report on a proposed club at Plowden in March 1908.
Shrewsbury Chronicle Friday 13 March 1908. Image © Midland News Association. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Further meeting for the proposed golf club in March 1908.
From the Shrewsbury Chronicle Friday 2o March 1908. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Reports on the course opening in August 1908.
From the Shrewsbury Chronicle Friday 4 September 1908. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Ludlow Advertiser Saturday 5 September 1908. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Ordnance Survey Map from the 1900s showing Plowden Railway Station The golf course was "near" the station.
O.S. Map Revised 1901; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1903}.