Showing posts with label Ilfracombe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ilfracombe. Show all posts

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Ilfracombe Crazy Golf

A look at the Ilfracombe Crazy Golf course.


Ilfracombe Crazy Golf. Photo by Adam Dewar, September 2020

Many thanks to my friend Adam Dewar for sending along a few snaps from his recent visit to Ilfracombe, Devon where he had a game on the Crazy Golf course.

Ilfracombe Crazy Golf. Photo by Adam Dewar, September 2020

Ilfracombe Crazy Golf. Photo by Adam Dewar, September 2020

Ilfracombe Crazy Golf. Photo by Adam Dewar, September 2020

We visited the course on Ilfracombe Promenade during our south west coast road-trip in 2015 but were just too late to have a game there.

It's an interesting looking layout and the 12-hole course has some unique obstacles to play up, over, under, around and through.

Visit the Ilfracombe Crazy Golf website for more information.


A postcard from Ilfracombe

I actually bought a couple of crazy golf postcards of the Ilfracombe course at the last postcard fair I attended before the pandemic.

We're looking forward to returning to Ilfracombe on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in the future.

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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Crazy Golf and Crazy Snooker at Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle in Devon

There are Crazy Golf and Crazy Snooker courses at Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle near Ilfracombe in North Devon.


One of the places to visit on our post-pandemic bucket list is Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle near Ilfracombe in Devon.

There's a 9-hole Crazy ‘Fountain’ Golf course there AND a Crazy Snooker layout. When I checked with the theme park the team confirmed it is a Pit-Pat layout. That makes it the only outdoor Pit-Pat course in the UK!

Watermouth money

Two of the tokens in my collection come from Watermouth Castle. I found them at an antiques fair back in 2015 and I found out they date from before 1992.

Token from Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle in Devon
What a happy castle

Token from Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle in Devon
I wonder how much 10 Gnolds are worth these days? Not that I'd part with the coin

Visit the Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle website for more information.

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Crazy Golf postcards from Ilfracombe

A look at a pair of miniature golf postcards from Ilfracombe.


I bought this pair of crazy golf postcards from Ilfracombe, Devon at the last postcard fair I attended.

Mini Golf Course. Sea Front. Ilfracombe. Taw Valley Wholesale Co.
Mini Golf Course. Sea Front. Ilfracombe. Taw Valley Wholesale Co. 1977

Crazy Golf at Ilfracombe. Taw Valley Wholesale Co.
Crazy Golf at Ilfracombe. Taw Valley Wholesale Co. Photocolour TV/IF312

Both were published by the Taw Valley Wholesale Co, Ilfracombe. Neither are postally used.

We visited the course on our tour of the South West in the summer of 2015. It hasn't changed much at all.

Crazy Golf on the Promenade in Ilfracombe, Devon

Friday, July 26, 2019

Crazy Golf course on the Promenade in Ilfracombe, Devon

A look back at our visit to the Crazy Golf course in Ilfracombe, Devon.


Crazy Golf course on the Promenade in Ilfracombe, Devon

During our summer holiday around the South West of England back in 2015 we visited 62 miniature golf courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.


Crazy Golf course on the Promenade in Ilfracombe, Devon

The last of the seaside courses on the trip, and the penultimate course visited, was the 12-hole Crazy Golf course on the Promenade in Ilfracombe, Devon.


Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

Crazy Golf course on the Promenade in Ilfracombe, Devon

The course was the 660th visited on our travels.

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon
 
Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon
A rocket hole

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon
What a space ship!

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon
A view of the 'moon' green

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon

The last hole is really long!

A view of hole 12

A look back at hole 12 from the green

For more information check out the Ilfracombe Crazy Golf course website.

Squeezing 62 course visits into two-weeks was a BIG task and it wasn't possible to stop at, or play all of the Mini, Crazy and Adventure Golf courses, or all the Putting Greens and Pitch & Putts we saw on the trip, or those we'd heard about beforehand.

Related blog posts:

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
Mini Golf in the South West of England