2. Look for a footpath sign on the left, roughly opposite the chair. and head to the right of the modern QES Studio School. Cross the carpark and go through a kissing gate onto the main A65 road.
3. Cross the A65 with care and go through the kissing gate into the rugby field. Walk directly ahead, crossing several field boundaries and following footpath signs until you reach a gate giving access to farm buildings belonging to Woodend Farm. Take a look to your left before you go through the gate. This is the site of Kirkby Lonsdale’s first golf course.
Kirkby Lonsdale’s First Golf Club (1906-1938)
If you had lived in Kirkby Lonsdale 100 years ago, you wouldn’t have headed to Casterton or Barbon for a game of golf… Kirkby Lonsdale’s golf course would have been right on your doorstep.
Woodend Farm was next to the 5th Green, with Low Biggins above and Whittington Road below the course. There were walkways through the wood from the 4th Green to the 5th Tee and from the 9th Green to the Clubhouse. The terrain was similar to Casterton Golf Course with typical limestone rocky outcrops with occasional hawthorn and ash trees.