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Warren House Golf Course, Stanmore. (1890s - WW2)
The following is an extract of a report that appeared in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News on Saturday 16 June 1894. "Messrs. Debenham, Tewson, Farmer and Bridgewater, are instructed by the resident proprietor to sell the well-known complete, and most attractive Freehold Residential Estate, Warren House, Stanmore. The park contains a pretty sheet of water of nearly two acres, ladies' golf links have been laid out forming a course of nine-holes."
Thanks to Ian Knights for the following information and for bringing the former course to our attention.
"A private nine-hole golf course was laid out on the Warren House Estate in the 1900s (exact date yet to be found) and existed until WW2. The land was eventually purchased by the local authority to create an open space when the green belt was established.
Warren House was owned by wealthy banker Henry Louis Bishoffsheim in the 1900s and it may well have been he that had the golf course built in the grounds. At about this time the professional at Warren House was William G Rainbow who is listed as competing in the Open Championship at Sandwich In 1911 representing Warren House.
William Rainbow's great granddaughter was carrying out some research into her ancestor and wrote to Stanmore Golf Club enquiring about him, having found that in the 1911 census he was listed as a golf professional living in Stanmore. He is commemorated on the war memorial in the parish churchyard in Stanmore, unfortunately having been killed in Belgium in WW1.
The professional in the 1920s was A J Miles. He played in a professional competition at Broxbourne Golf Club (now defunct) in July 1923.
The course can be seen on the following Britain From Above Link:
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw053050
Ordnance Survey Map Revised 1912 © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1920}.
The golf course also appears on the 1935 O.S map between Cloisters Wood and Pear Wood.
Early postcard of Warren House, Stanmore.
Warren House and grounds.
The Google Map below shows the location of the former course.