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Moorside Golf Club, Higher Disley, Cheshire. (1930s - 1950s)
First appeared in Golfer's Handbook in the late 1930s when the secretary was S Warmisham and the green-keeper R Myers.
A 9-hole course with a SSS of 73 and Par 74 and a club membership of 100. Visitors’ fees were, 1/6 a day, 5/- on Sunday and Bank Holidays. The station at Disley was 1 ½ miles away. Local hotel was the Rams Head.
From the Liverpool Express Wednesday 2 February 1938 written by R Anday - "With Mr Hopkin Hill, of the Widnes Club, I went to see the new Moorside course on the Disley Moors at the week-end, but there was a layer of snow on it. However Mr Hill made up a foursome (without myself), but the game had to be abandoned on the second "rink." Meanwhile, Mr Bert Cole, chairman of the club, showed me round the barn, which is being converted to a clubhouse entirely by the members. Their progress is highly commendable. By Easter, the century old barn will be the cosy and rustic "19th" of the Moorside Golf Club."
Mention of the course on a ramblers route in the Manchester Evening News Thursday 11 May 1939 - "After passing the last farm the path becomes grass grown and finally brings through a gate into a crosswise running way with a fold in the hills below. Turn right now and pursue this cart track towards the Moorside Golf house, but eventually swinging left with it into the road. Here is a signpost at cross-roads indicating the lie of Bowstonegate, Disley and Kettleshulme."
From 1947 to its demise in the late 1950s the secretary at the Moorside Country Golf Club Ltd, telephone Disley 249 was E R Lewis, 1 Lisburne Lane, Stockport. The green-keeper was J Jones. Visitors’ fees were 1/6 a day, 2/6 at weekend and Bank Holiday.
It was reported in November 1953 that there was a proposal to build a ski-lift at Moorside Golf Club before the winter snow arrives.
Manchester Evening News Wednesday 19 August 1995. Image © Reach plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Ordnance Survey Map showing Moorside.
O.S. Map Revised 1919 to 1920; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1924}.
Location of the Moorside course in the 1950s.
Information from Edmund Wilkinson of Stansted in 2004 - “I have recollections of a course in this remote spot above Lyme Park, but it is long gone.