Hurlston Hall Golf Club

Scarisbrick lies in the West Lancashire countryside near Ormskirk, on the flat mossland that stretches between Southport and the edge of Merseyside, land reclaimed and drained for agriculture from what was once extensive peat bog. This part of Lancashire has long been given over to intensive vegetable and salad growing, taking advantage of the rich black soil left behind after centuries of drainage, and the flat, open fields here contrast with the dune-backed golf coastline a few miles away around Southport and Birkdale. The club plays over eighteen holes and sits within this agricultural belt, close enough to the coast to draw on the wider reputation the area holds among golfers while occupying a more inland, low-lying setting typical of the reclaimed mossland. Scarisbrick itself is a small, scattered rural parish rather than a town, its landscape dominated by farms, drainage channels and the long straight roads characteristic of this kind of reclaimed land. The area sits within reach of both Southport to the north-west and Ormskirk to the south-east, two contrasting market towns that between them serve this stretch of West Lancashire.