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During and following the First World War there was a growth of provision of sports facilities within Richmond Park granted by the British monarchy. In order to provide golf facilities to "local artisans", unable to afford membership of private clubs, George V commissioned J. H. Taylor, one of the famous "Great Triumvirate" of Braid, Taylor and Vardon, to lay out an 18-hole golf course with ...
The course was designed by Tom Dunn in 1896, one of many laid out by him during the explosion of popularity of the sport in the late 19th century. [ 6 ] The current layout of the course consists of six par 3, eight par 4 and four par 5 holes, with a total length of 6,091 yards (5,570 m) and a par of 70 ( SSS 69).
The Alton Estate, one of the largest council estates in the UK, occupies an extensive swathe of land west of Roehampton village and runs between Roehampton Lane and Richmond Park Golf Course. The estate has a mix of low and high-rise modernist architecture consisting of Alton East (1958) styled a subtle Scandinavian -influenced vernacular and ...
Richmond Park is the largest of London's Royal Parks. [7] It is the second-largest park in London (after the 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) Lee Valley Park, whose linear shaped area extends beyond the M25 into Hertfordshire and Essex) and is Britain's second-largest urban walled park after Sutton Park, [1] Birmingham.
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Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 5: 51. 1984. ISSN 0263-0958. Pasmore, Stephen (1990). "The Countess of Pembroke and Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 11: 12– 19. ISSN 0263-0958. Hirschler, Rachel (2024). "Bertrand Russell's childhood years at ...