A blog about our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. With a sprinkling of nostalgia and urban exploration for good measure.
Showing posts with label Ilfracombe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ilfracombe. Show all posts
Monday, July 13, 2026
Crazy Golf at Stowford Farm Meadows in Combe Martin, Devon
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I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Guinness World Record Holder for 'Most miniature golf courses visited'. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Mediocre polymath. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer. Always feeling nostalgic about something.
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Crazy Golf in Ilfracombe, Devon
A look back at our visit to the 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.
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Ilfracombe, UK
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Guinness World Record Holder for 'Most miniature golf courses visited'. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Mediocre polymath. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer. Always feeling nostalgic about something.
Friday, August 09, 2024
Ilfracombe Crazy Golf course to be revamped
There are plans to revamp the minigolf course in Ilfracombe, Devon.
We visited the course on Ilfracombe Promenade during our south west coast road-trip back in 2015.
It'll be nice to revisit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in the future.
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Wilder Rd, Ilfracombe EX34 8BN, UK
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Guinness World Record Holder for 'Most miniature golf courses visited'. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Mediocre polymath. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer. Always feeling nostalgic about something.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Ilfracombe Crazy Golf
A look at the Ilfracombe Crazy Golf course.
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.
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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Ilfracombe, UK
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Guinness World Record Holder for 'Most miniature golf courses visited'. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Mediocre polymath. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer. Always feeling nostalgic about something.
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.![]() |
| What a happy castle |
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| 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.
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I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Guinness World Record Holder for 'Most miniature golf courses visited'. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Mediocre polymath. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer. Always feeling nostalgic about something.
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.
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| Mini Golf Course. Sea Front. Ilfracombe. Taw Valley Wholesale Co. 1977 |
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| 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.
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Location:
Ilfracombe, UK
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Guinness World Record Holder for 'Most miniature golf courses visited'. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Mediocre polymath. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer. Always feeling nostalgic about something.
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.
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.
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.
| A rocket hole |
| What a space ship! |
| A view of the 'moon' green |
| 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
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Location:
Ilfracombe, UK
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Guinness World Record Holder for 'Most miniature golf courses visited'. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Mediocre polymath. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer. Always feeling nostalgic about something.
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