New minigolf courses in the UK

Information about new minigolf courses being built, in development and planned to open in the UK.

Minigolf is an incredibly popular activity for all ages and there are new mini-golf, crazy golf and adventure courses opening up all the time in a wide-range of outdoor and indoor locations.

Whereas the game in the UK was more traditionally a seaside pastime, over the last decade it has grown to be a game enjoyed by people in more urban settings - with many minigolf venues catering to a late night audience.

How many minigolf courses are there in the UK?

As at January 2025 there are approximately 1,370 minigolf courses around the UK and British Isles (including Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, and other islands). This includes public courses, as well as those at pay to enter attractions, holiday parks, hotels and other 'non-standard' locations.

Developments over the last two decades

When our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour travels began in 2006 there were around 600 courses in the British Isles. Only two of those original courses were indoor venues. Both of these were on the East Anglian coast (in Felixstowe and Great Yarmouth), and both locations still have minigolf courses. The indoor course at Manning's Amusements in Felixstowe has recently been removed and is being replaced by a brand new layout that is set to open in the same location at Easter this year.

As the year-round, indoor game is booming and you can find minigolf courses indoors at shopping centres, retail parks, and in town and city centres around the country.

The game was traditionally played on days out, short breaks and holidays, either at the seaside or on holiday camps. While the game has always been enjoyed by people old enough to pick up a putter, it has become a game played as much by groups of adults as it is by families.

The Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

We've now been to a total of 1,075 miniature golf courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, with 1,017 of them in the British Isles. Our travels have been recognised by the Guinness World Records, and I'm a record holder for "Most miniature golf courses visited" (902 at the time of going to press). Check out the Guinness World Records 2024 book to see a lot more minigolf records too!

Of the original list of 600 we've still got to visit 39 of the public courses. In addition there are a further 150 courses at pay to enter attractions, hotels and holiday parks that we've not yet been to.

On top of these 189 courses from the original list there are hundreds more courses that have opened over the last 18 years! We tracked 320 courses that opened between May 2020 and July 2023. Between August 2023 and September 2024 a further 150 courses opened, or were in development. And between September 2024 and December 2024 another 27 new courses have been announced.

More new courses to come

There are 100+ new courses being created each year - some are on old sites/locations, some are completely new venues, while others are in planning/development, or under construction.

There are also quite a few other minigolf, crazy golf and adventure golf courses that are short-term 'pop-ups', some of which have been used as proof of concept businesses and developed into permanent courses. 

A few things to note

Please note that minigolf in the UK is not an exact science and courses are opening, in planning/development, and being 'lost' quite often. Others are being refurbished, and some are completely renovated to the point where they could be considered entirely new courses.

Find new courses

For information about new minigolf, crazy golf, and adventure golf courses opening in the UK take a look at the posts with the 'New course' tag here on the Ham & Egger Files minigolf blog where I regularly post updates about new places to play the game.

Let's talk minigolf

If you know of a new course opening in the UK please do get in touch and let me know.

Adventure Golf at Rufford Abbey Country Park, Nottinghamshire

A look at the Adventure Golf course at Rufford Abbey Country Park in Nottinghamshire.

Adventure Golf at Rufford Abbey Country Park, Nottinghamshire. Photo by Jam Trubridge

Many thanks to our friend and minigolf rival Jam Trubridge for sending over these seasonal snaps of the Adventure Golf course at Rufford Abbey Country Park in Nottinghamshire. Due to the weather it wasn't played on this occasion.

The course was created by the team at City Golf

It looks like an interesting layout, and it's got a lot of hole designs and obstacles we've not seen or played on our travels before.

Find out more on the Rufford Abbey Country Park website.

The Adventure Golf course at Rufford Abbey Country Park is one of several we've got to get to in Nottinghamshire. So many have opened up since our last trip to the county on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour!

2025 British Minigolf Association Calendar of Events

Details of the British Minigolf Association Tour Calendar of Events for the 2025 Season.

The 2025 competitive minigolf season tees-off at Hastings Adventure Golf with the Hastings Open 25th Anniversary competition on the 2nd March and runs until the 16th November when Mr Mulligans Dino Golf in Sidcup hosts the English Open.

You can find out more about the British Minigolf Association on the BMGA website.

A Dull 2025?

The Dull Men's Club Calendar 2025: Events Celebrating the Ordinary Worldwide.

The new Dull Men's Club Calendar for 2025 is now available to buy.

Visit the Dull Men's Club website for more information.

Both 'National Miniature Golf Day' and 'Miniature Golf Day' feature in the calendar.

Morrisan Supermarket in Manchester

There's something familiar about this shop's name and sign...

Morrisan Supermarket in Manchester

Morrisan Supermarket in Manchester

Video rental shops in the UK (January 2025)

A look at movie rental shops in the UK.

By my reckoning there are five 'video shops' still in operation offering physical media movie rentals in the UK. They are:

• 20th Century Flicks in Bristol
• TVL Allstar Video in Haverhill, Suffolk
• Snips Movies in Bebington, Wirral
• VideOdyssey in Toxteth, Liverpool
• Northgate Video & DVD in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Unfortunately B.V.C. - Bolton Video Centre in Little Lever, Bolton closed in July 2024. We visited that particular video shop on Video Shop Day back in 2020!

It's brilliant to see there are still businesses active in the movie rental sector though!

Signs and traces of video shops

There are still traces of former video shops to be found on the streets, shopping centres and retail parks of the UK. Most of those are old Blockbuster Video stores. But there are still signs of independent video shops to be seen if you're lucky (and actually visit and rent from if you're really lucky!). Some of those we've snapped over the years include:

• Shahenshah Videos in Luton
• Deane Video Centre in Bolton
• Video Box Office at the Happy Shopper Wayfairer Discount Store in Ilkeston
• Video Future in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
• The Movie Box in Manchester
• Jubilee Films in Ashton-under-Lyne
• B.V.C. - Bolton Video Centre in Little Lever, Bolton (closed down in 2024)
• 20th Century Flicks in Bristol (still operating, but closed on the day of our visit)
• Video Express in Swansea
• Video Rentals at The Village Top Shop in Thorpe Hesley, Rotherham
• Northgate Video & DVD in Bury St Edmunds (still operating, but closed on the day of our visit)
• TVL Allstar Video in Haverhill (still operating)

Blockbuster Video shops

Former Blockbuster Video store locations we've visited to date include:

• Abingdon, Oxfordshire
• Ashton, Bristol
• Barnsley, South Yorkshire
• Basingstoke, Hampshire
• Billingham, Teesside
• Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester
• Chester, Cheshire
• Chorley, Lancashire
• Clacton-on-Sea, Essex
• Colne, Lancashire
• Failsworth, Manchester
• Fallowfield, Manchester
• Felixstowe, Suffolk
• Filton, Bristol
• Great Moor, Stockport, Greater Manchester
• Hastings, East Sussex
• Leigh, Greater Manchester
• Luton, Bedfordshire
• Marple, Greater Manchester
• Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
• Nuneaton, Warwickshire
• Oldham, Greater Manchester
• Prescot, Lancashire
• Shanklin, Isle of Wight
• Southampton, Hampshire
• Telford, Shropshire
• Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex
• Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
• Wythenshawe, Manchester

Do you still have a video rental store near you? Please let us know in the comments if you do!

Happy New Year 2025!

Happy New Year!

All the very best for 2025.

The Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in 2024

We visited 33 miniature golf courses this year.

Our minigolf adventures have taken us around the world - this is the Golf Planet Indoor Mini Golf course in Santiago, Chile

Courses played in 2024:

• 574 (1,053) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (Twilight Zone by Monster Mini Golf) - 18-hole indoor course at the Horseshoe
• 575 (1,064) Westerfield, Ipswich (The Railway pub) - Adventure Golf
• 576 (1,034) Milton Keynes (Volcano Falls Adventure Golf) - Coney Island Carnival course - previously visited but not played in October 2023
• 577 (1,066) Manchester, Arndale (Roxy Ball Room) - Crazy Pool
• 578 (1,063) Manchester, Arndale (King Pins) - Mini Golf
• 579 (1,067) Warrington (Level Up Warrington) - Mini Golf
• 580 (1,068) Northwich (Christmas Extravaganza pop-up Crazy Golf course by Lancashire Crazy Golf) - Christmas-themed Crazy Golf

PopStroke Mini Golf in Las Vegas

Courses visited in 2024:

• 1,045 Bournemouth (Boom Battle Bar) - Crazier Nolf
• 1,046 - 1,047 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (PopStroke Las Vegas) - Black and Blue courses at Town Square Las Vegas
• 1,048 - 1,052 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (Swingers Las Vegas) - five 9-hole indoor crazy golf courses at Mandalay Bay - under construction
• 1,054 Bury St Edmunds (Abbey Gardens) - Crazy Golf - Revisited in August 2024 (the course had moved locations in the park)
• 1,055 (1,000th visited in the British Isles) Bury St Edmunds (Sneaky Links Crazy Golf) - Crazy Golf - Revisited in August 2024
• 1,056 Lincoln (Urban Putters) - Crazy Golf
• 1,057 Lincoln (GH Golf Lincoln) - Crazy Golf
• 1,058 Blackpool (The Hole In Wand) - Magical Mini Golf
• 1,059 Blackpool (Putt Above Mini Golf & Bar) - High-tech indoor minigolf
• 1,060 King's Lynn (Octoputts) - Indoor Crazy Golf
• 1,061 Santiago, Chile (Club de Golf Los Leones) - Putting Green
• 1,062 Santiago, Chile (Golf Planet at Open Plaza Kennedy) - Circuito de Minigolf
• 1,063 Manchester, Arndale (King Pins) - Mini Golf
• 1,065 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (KISS World featuring KISS Mini Golf and KISS World Museum) - KISS Mini Golf
• 1,069 Haverhill (Go Wild Axe & Golf - Wild Blades) - Adventure Golf
• 1,070 Rugby (Strikes Bar at The Adventure Zone in Rugby Central shopping centre) - Crazy Golf
• 1,071 Manchester (Tenpin Parrs Wood) - Prison Putt indoor adventure golf
• 1,072 Manchester, Trafford Palazzo (King Pins) - Mini Golf
• 1,073 Banbury (Banbury Bowl) - Scrapyard Golf
• 1,074 Banbury (The Light) - Mini Golf
• 1,075 Frilford (Millets Farm) - Millets Farmyard Golf

Nolf - the not Crazier Golf game at Boom Battle Bar!

Courses revisited in 2024:

• Prestatyn Crazy Golf in Prestatyn
• Blackpool Pleasure Beach Adventure Golf
• Princess Parade Crazy Golf in Blackpool
• Adventure Golf on Sea Road in Felixstowe
• Magical Golf FX in Felixstowe
• City Mini Golf course at Maggie Daley Park in Chicago, USA
• FTW in Chicago, USA
• Paradise Island Adventure Golf at the Trafford Centre in Manchester
• Mini Golf at Roxy Ball Room on Deansgate in Manchester
• Crazy Golf at Vickersway Park in Northwich
• Putting Courses at Vickersway Park in Northwich
• Bournemouth's Lower Gardens Mini Golf course
• The abandoned minigolf course on Bournemouth's Exeter Road

We've now been to a total of 1,075 miniature golf courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006, with 1,017 of them in the British Isles. Our travels have been recognised by the Guinness World Records, and Richard is a record holder for "Most miniature golf courses visited".

When our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour travels began in 2006 there were around 600 courses in the British Isles.

Of the original list of 600 we've still got to visit 39 of the public courses. In addition there are a further 150 courses at pay to enter attractions, hotels and holiday parks that we've not yet been to.

On top of these 189 courses from the original list there are hundreds more courses that have opened over the last 18 years! We tracked 320 courses that opened between May 2020 and July 2023. Between August 2023 and September 2024 a further 150 courses opened, or were in development. And between September 2024 and December 2024 another 27 new courses have been announced.

As of today there are approximately 1,370 minigolf courses around the UK and British Isles (including Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, and other islands). This includes public courses, as well as those at pay to enter attractions, holiday parks, hotels and other 'non-standard' locations.

For information about new minigolf, crazy golf, and adventure golf courses opening in the UK take a look at the posts with the 'New course' tag here on the Ham & Egger Files minigolf blog where we regularly post updates about new places to play the game.

If you know of a new course opening in the UK please do get in touch and let us know.

Merry Christmas 2024!

Happy Christmas!

We wish you a very merry Christmas and all the best for the festive season.

Christmas Crazy Golf courses from our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Scrapyard Golf at Banbury Bowl

A visit to the Scrapyard Golf course at the Banbury Bowl Discobowl venue in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Check out the Banbury Bowl website for more information.

Mini Golf at The Light in Banbury

There's a mini golf course at The Light cinema in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Visit The Light Banbury's website for more information.

Farmyard Golf at Millets Farm in Frilford

A visit to the Farmyard Golf course at Millets Farm in Frilford, Oxfordshire.

Check out the Millets Farm website for more information.

Crazy Golf at Coxs at Spencers Farm Shop in Wickham St Paul, Halstead

There's a Crazy Golf course at Coxs at Spencers Farm Shop in Wickham St Paul, Halstead in Essex.

Find out more on the Spencers Farm Shop website.

18 years ago on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

A look back at the 10th course played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We visited the 10th course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour on a bitterly cold 23rd December 2006 Emily, my brother Christopher and I headed along to the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire to have a game on their beer garden Crazy Golf course.

And what a course it was - we'd not seen anything like it before! And we haven't seen anything quite like it since!

Crazy Golf at the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - December 2006

We visited the course again in April 2011 and while it was a bit drier, it was still a very mossy layout.

Crazy Golf at the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - April 2011

Little did we know back then that our interest in crazy golf would become an obsession and that we'd visit 1,075 courses over 18 years.

Together with Christopher and his family we've now been to a grand total of 1,122 courses since we all picked up a putter in Southsea on the 30th September 2006.