Mannings Heath Golf Club

Mannings Heath Golf Club
Mannings Heath Hotel & Golf Club
Location Hammerpond Road,
Mannings Heath,
Horsham, West Sussex, SO21 2LT
Opening date 1914
Developer Harry Colt
Owner Exclusive Hotels
Website Manningsheath.com

Mannings Heath is golf course and hotel in Mannings Heath, Horsham in the south of England [1][2][3].

The land the course sits on was used in the 18th-century as a meeting point for smugglers.[4]. In the late 1740s, its Hawkin's Pond was the scene of one of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang's most brutal murders [5].

Mannings Heath was opened as a golf course in 1914, after having been designed by the world-famous English architect Harry Colt. Almost immediately after the course was laid, the land was seized for agricultural purposes to aid the war effort during World War I [6]. The effects of war were felt again during World War II, when a Handley Page Halifax Bomber crashed on the golf course on 17 February 1945. The site has an official plaque memorial to commemorate the loss of life [7].

It is also a noteworthy early example of a golf course employing formal trade exchange pricing via its 'Town's Section' subscription, where craftsmen worked on the course instead of paying subscriptions [8].

References

  1. ^ The County Times. 23 May 2007. http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news?articleid=2899376. Retrieved 20 January 2010. 
  2. ^ "Pro-ams go in search of Lombard glory". This Is Local London. 9 June 2003. http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/sport/sportheadlines/376207.proams_go_in_search_of_lombard_glory/. Retrieved 20 January 2010. 
  3. ^ "The Waterfall at Mannings Heath". Golf.co.uk. 12 Oct 2009. http://www.golf.co.uk/news/course_of_the_week_the_waterfall_at_mannings_heath/233278.shtml. Retrieved 20 January 2010. 
  4. ^ "Secrets". http://www.manningsheath.com/EXCLUSIVE_HOTELS/the_club/secrets.aspx. Retrieved 20 January 2010. 
  5. ^ Chatterton, E. Keble (2008). King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 (Chapter V). Leonaur Ltd. ISBN 978-1846774072. 
  6. ^ "History". http://www.manningsheath.com/EXCLUSIVE_HOTELS/the_club/history.aspx. Retrieved 20 January 2010. 
  7. ^ , 6th April 2005, http://www.copsalehall.co.uk/parishcouncil/Minutes%206th%20April%202005.doc, retrieved 20 January 2010 
  8. ^ "History". http://www.manningsheath.com/EXCLUSIVE_HOTELS/the_club/history.aspx. Retrieved 20 January 2010. 

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