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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.

 

Bishop's Castle Golf Club, Plowden. Report on a proposed club 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.

 

Plowden Golf Club, Shropshire. Meeting for the proposed 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.

 

Plowden Golf Club, Shropshire. Report on the opening of the course in August 1908.

From the Shrewsbury Chronicle Friday 4 September 1908. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

 

Plowden Golf Club, Shropshire. Report on the opening of the golf course in 1908.

 

Plowden Golf Club, Shropshire. Report on the opening of the golf course in 1908.

 

Plowden Golf Club, Shropshire. Report on the opening of the golf course in 1908.

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.

 

Plowden Golf Club, Shropshire. O.S. Map from the 1900s showing the railway station.

O.S. Map Revised 1901; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1903}.