Bowood Golf & Country Club

Bowood Golf and Country Club forms part of the wider Bowood Estate near Calne in Wiltshire, an historic parkland estate whose grounds were landscaped by Capability Brown and which also houses a stately home and gardens alongside the golf operation. The eighteen-hole course sits within this estate landscape, giving it a setting shaped by eighteenth-century landscape design rather than a purpose-built golf development, with mature parkland trees and open grassland typical of Brown's work. Calne is a market town in north Wiltshire, positioned between Chippenham and Devizes in a county known for its chalk downland to the south and gentler, wooded lowland around the Avon valley to the north, where Bowood sits. The estate also hosts corporate and social events through its banqueting facilities, reflecting a pattern among English country estates of diversifying beyond agriculture and tourism into golf and hospitality. For golfers in this part of Wiltshire, Bowood's combination of an eighteen-hole course with the surrounding historic estate distinguishes it from the county's more conventional standalone clubs.

Bowood Golf & Country Club plays over 18 holes.

You will find Bowood Golf & Country Club at Derry Hill, Calne, Wiltshire, SN11 9PQ. It also shows up in our guides for Bristol, Gloucester, and Oxford, since those cover the wider area. The club runs its own site, linked in the sidebar, with booking and membership details. A map further down the page marks the exact spot for satnav and directions.

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