Townscliffe Golf Club 1908-1920

The beginnings of golf in Mellor occurred at a time of considerable changes. The coal mines and textile mills that had dominated the surrounding area had mostly closed down. The village was evolving into more of a dormitory community where people lived and travelled to their places of work and it’s amid this changing environment that golf in Mellor started and with which it is intrinsically linked.

The village of Mellor, historically in Derbyshire, established its first Golf Club in 1894 just below the high plateau of Cobden edge.

There was, however, for a short period of time spanning the Great War, another independent golf club in Mellor. It was located, less than a mile to the north of Mellor Golf club, across the valley (and Longhurst Lane) in an area of Mellor just off Longhurst Lane known as Townscliffe. Its greens climbed up from the clubhouse at Townscliffe Farm past Knowle Farm to the prominent beauty spot occupied by Mellor Church.