Crazy Golf at Burnley's Christmas Lights Switch-On

There will be a free to play Crazy Golf course at Burnley's Christmas Lights Switch-On on Saturday 16th November.

Crazy Golf in Burnley town centre

Burnley town centre will be hosting a Crazy Golf course as part of a programme of summer activities.

The Crazy Golf course will be set up on St James's Street on Friday 16th and Friday 23rd August. The course will be free to play.

Find out more on the Burnley Business Improvement District (BID) website.

New Crazy Golf course at Ighten Leigh Social Club in Burnley

Ighten Leigh Social Club in Burnley has a new Crazy Golf course.

Hopefully we'll get to play the layout in the future. Burnley isn't too far from us and we're looking forward to visiting the town again when it's safe for us to do so.

It'll be interesting to see what the Ighten Leigh Social Club Crazy Golf course layout looks like.

New miniature golf courses in the UK

It's the second brand new minigolf course in the UK to open its doors for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic. The first was the 18-hole dinosaur-themed adventure golf course at Perton Park Golf Club in Wolverhampton.

A new Mini Golf course has also been installed at Sea Acres Holiday Park at Kennack Sands in Cornwall.

There are a number of new minigolf courses also being built, in development or planned.

A new adventure golf course is under construction at Fairhaven Lake in Lytham St Annes on the Fylde coast. A new adventure golf layout is nearing completion at China Fleet Country Club in Saltash, Cornwall. The Filwood Community Centre in Knowle West, Bristol is planning a new Crazy Golf course and have a Putt at Home Club in the meantime. The new Roxy Ball Room at Withy Grove in Manchester will include minigolf among the games on offer. Work will soon be underway again at the Princess Parade Crazy Golf course in Blackpool. There are plans for a new Ghetto Golf venue in Sheffield, an adventure golf centre at Birmingham's Bullring shopping centre, a crazy golf course at Kingsway West Retail Park in Dundee and an adventure golf course in Andover, Hampshire. Work is also almost complete at the new Crazy Golf course at Pembrey Country Park in Wales and Boom Battle Bar in Norwich. While the new Gravity venue in Northampton was completed just as lockdown was announced.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic we were closing in on visiting the final 40 courses of the original 600 we set out to play in 2006. We're also very close to hitting 1,000 course visits overall.

Before the lockdown hit and our out-of-home putting was paused we'd visited 948 courses since September 2006.

We're now up to 949 course visits as we found a Pitch & Putt course on one of our daily walks last month.

We'd had a very strong start to the year and visited 20 courses in the first 20 days of 2020.

Who knows where and when course visit number 950 will be...?

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Thompson Park Miniature Railway in Burnley

A visit to the Miniature Railway at Thompson Park in Burnley.

Last month we visited Burnley for the first time. While there we found a Putting course at Queens Park and a superb miniature railway at Thompson Park.

It's always a bonus to find a miniature railway on our travels and we really weren't expecting to find or ride one on our day out in Burnley.

Thompson Park is a lovely spot and well worth a visit.

We've always enjoyed miniature railways and since we moved up to Greater Manchester we've found quite a few more while out and about exploring our new local area. There are three miniature railways in Stockport borough! Interestingly some of the engines at Thompson Park were formerly in operation at the Brookside Miniature Railway in Stockport.

Related blog posts:
- Miniature Railways
- Burnley

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- Thompson Park Railway

From Brighton to Burnley on our Crazy World of Mingolf Tour

In March 2007 we visited the 12th course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. It was on the seafront in Brighton. On Saturday we visited our 912th course. It was a Putting Green in Burnley.

Putting at Queens Park in Burnley

A visit to the Putting Course at Queens Park in Burnley, Lancashire.

We were in Burnley at the weekend and once again Emily struck minigolf gold as she found us a Putting Course to visit!

Unfortunately the interesting looking layout wasn't open.

The course hadn't been cut in for the season, but we could see that most of the cups were in place.

It's the first time we've seen solid wooden posts used as the 'flags'. It'd be fun trying to score a hole-in-one getting a rebound off the posts.

The grass Putting Green at Queens Park in Burnley became the 912th course we've visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Munch Man

Spotting 'Pac-Man' on a sandwich shop sign in Burnley.

Pac-Man is always munching

We've also seen the video-game character pop up on shop signs in Preston, Ipswich, Nottingham and Bristol.