Cleveland Golf Club

Cleveland Golf Club dates to 1887, making it one of the older established clubs on this stretch of the north-east coast. Its postcode places it at Redcar, on the North Sea coastline of what was historically the county of Cleveland before local government reorganisation folded the area into the wider Teesside and County Durham boundary changes of the late twentieth century. This is a coastal, industrial corner of England, shaped as much by the steelworks and shipping that once dominated the Tees estuary as by the dunes and links ground running along the shore. A club founded in the 1880s here would have taken shape during the same period that Teesside's iron and steel industry was expanding rapidly, drawing workers and, eventually, leisure clubs like this one into the new towns growing along the coast. The North Sea is close enough to bring an exposed, breezy character to the ground, typical of the links terrain found along this stretch of coastline north of Whitby.