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Kirkby Stephen Golf Club
www.kirkbystephengolfclub.co.uk

A beautiful 9 hole Golf Course and Driving Range set in the heart of Cumbria.

Updated 27th April: 2008


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		Kirkby Stephen Golf Club is run by the Dinsdale family who have farmed in the area for over 30 years. The course was initially designed in 1999 and then the task began of creating it for real. The family did a lot of the work themselves including planting over 3500 trees to add to the natural landscape.

		The Kirkby Stephen Golf Club finally opened in March 2003.

	Alan and son, Lee, maintain the course; daughter, Donna, is responsible for the accounts; Carol does the publicity and marketing; and Carol’s mum, Joyce, is on hand to look after the course while the others are at their day jobs.

		“We sold our dairy herd some years ago,” explains Alan, “as farming wasn’t paying at all. But we didn’t want to sell the land. Then one


	evening various friends were complaining that there was nowhere close by to get a full-sized game of golf and that started the idea of a family-run business that would make the most of our land and provide a useful leisure facility for the area as well.”


	“It has been a lot of hard work to get this far,” agrees Carol, “and we still have plans to develop the amenities further, providing a clubhouse etc. In the meantime we all enjoy meeting new people as well as seeing visitors return time after time.”


		Web Master’s note.

	The name Dinsdale can be traced back as far as around 1722 to James Dinsdale & Mary Bowsfield . The name Dinsdale is also linked to the name Crowther from whence the family crest on the left originates.

	It is believed that the name Dinsdale originates with the village of Low Dinsdale on the Durham and North Yorkshire border, by the River Tees. Low Dinsdale is between the towns of Stockton and Darlington - there is also a Dinsdale railway station. There are a significant number of Dinsdale families in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.

	The name Dinsdale is understood to be derived from the Viking Danesdale “(valley where Danes have settled)”

Kirkby Stephen Golf Club, Busk Farm, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria CA17 4PX
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