Wearside Golf Club

HER Number

16793

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Wearside Golf Club

Place

Cox Green

Map Sheet

NZ35NW

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Club

Site Type: Specific

Golf Club

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Wearside Golf Club was founded in 1892. Their original pavilion burnt down in 1909 and their second (designed by George Brown and Joseph Spain) in 1956. The course was used for grazing cattle in WWI, and ploughed to grow crops in WWII.

Easting

433681

Northing

555801

Grid Reference

NZ433681555801

Sources

2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p20;
https://www.wearsidegolfclub.co.uk/aboutus.html