Crane Valley Golf Club

Crane Valley Golf Club is registered under Bournemouth, though its BH31 postcode places it well inland from the coastal resort, in the countryside towards Verwood and the Dorset-Hampshire border. This part of Dorset sits close to Cranborne Chase, a chalk plateau of ancient woodland and rolling farmland straddling the boundary between Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire, one of the more thinly populated pockets of southern England. The wider county of Dorset is generally associated with its Jurassic Coast and seaside towns such as Bournemouth and Poole, but much of its interior, including the area around Verwood, is quieter and more agricultural, dominated by heathland, forestry and small market towns. Golf clubs in this part of Dorset tend to sit away from the coastal crowds, drawing players from the New Forest to the east and the Bournemouth conurbation to the south. Anyone approaching from Bournemouth itself faces a drive of several miles north into this more rural stretch of the county before reaching the club.