Robin Hood Golf Course (Owston)

Locality
Coordinate	53.597262, -1.162195
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	Owston Hall, Owston, Doncaster
Type	Association
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1930

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Owston Park Golf Course, formerly Robin Hood Golf Club or Robin Hood Golf
Course.

Owston Park Golf Course (photo from Owston Park Golf Course website).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Since 1988 this has been a commercially operated "pay and play" nine holes golf course named Owston Park Golf Course. It still figures in Google Earth as "Owston Hall & Robin Hood Golf Club". Its is indicated on the 1930 and 1950 O.S. 6" maps of the area as Robin Hood Golf Course.

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCLXIV.SE (1930, rev. 1930)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCLXIV.SE (1950, rev. 1948).

Background

• Owston Park Golf Course (company website).

Also see

• Barnsdale place-name cluster.

Notes

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names