Manchester Golf Club - 200 Years - Salford, UK
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This plaque was erected on Kersal Moor in 2018 to commemorate the bi-centennial anniversary of the setting up of the Manchester Golf Course.
Waymark Code: WM11Y57
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/09/2020
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"Kersal Moor is a recreation area in Kersal, Greater Manchester, England which consists of eight hectares of moorland bounded by Moor Lane, Heathlands Road, St. Paul's Churchyard and Singleton Brook.
Kersal Moor, first called Karsey or Carsall Moor, originally covered a much larger area, running down to the River Irwell. Evidence of activity during the Neolithic period has been discovered and the area was used by the Romans. It was the site of the first Manchester Racecourse and the second golf course to be built outside Scotland. It has been extensively used for other sporting pursuits, military manoeuvres and public gatherings such as the Great Chartist Meeting of 1838, prompting the political theorist Friedrich Engels to dub it 'the Mons Sacer of Manchester'."
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ON THIS SITE IN 1818 THE OLD
MANCHESTER GOLF CLUB PLAYED
THEIR FIRST GAME. ON MAY 7TH 2018
THEY RETURNED TO PLAY A
CEREMONIAL GAME TO CELEBRATE
THEIR BI-CENTENARY.
PLAQUE UNVEILED BY THE
MAYOR OF SALFORD COUNCILLOR
PETER CONNOR.