Golf clubs

Hillingdon Golf Club was officially founded by Charles E Stevens, Charles Milnes Newton and John C Hibbert in September 1892. Part of the estate of Hillingdon House, where Newton lived with his wife and aunt, Lady Cox, formed the first grounds.At that time Uxbridge was a market town with Hillingdon, West Drayton and Ickenham just small villages nearby. Sporting activity in Uxbridge centred on cricket in the summer months and football in the winter. Harry Woods, the then groundsman of the cricket club, was entrusted with the task of constructing the course. It is reasonable to assume that at first, only tees and greens were laid, with the shape of the fairways being dictated in the main by the many oak trees._