Mannings Heath Golf Club
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Mannings Heath is golf course and hotel in Mannings Heath
, Horsham
in the south of England
.
The land the course sits on was used in the 18th-century as a meeting point for smugglers.. In the late 1740s, its Hawkin's Pond was the scene of one of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang's most brutal murders
.
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
. 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
.
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 .
Mannings Heath
Mannings Heath is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, on the A281 a few miles south-east of the town of Horsham. It lies in the civil parish of Nuthurst....
, Horsham
Horsham
Horsham is a market town with a population of 55,657 on the upper reaches of the River Arun in the centre of the Weald, West Sussex, in the historic County of Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester...
in the south of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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The land the course sits on was used in the 18th-century as a meeting point for smugglers.. In the late 1740s, its Hawkin's Pond was the scene of one of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang's most brutal murders
.
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
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
. The effects of war were felt again during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, when a Handley Page Halifax Bomber
Handley Page Halifax
The Handley Page Halifax was one of the British front-line, four-engined heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. A contemporary of the famous Avro Lancaster, the Halifax remained in service until the end of the war, performing a variety of duties in addition to bombing...
crashed on the golf course on 17 February 1945. The site has an official plaque memorial to commemorate the loss of life
.
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 .