Long Ashton Golf Club

Long Ashton Golf Club was founded in 1893, placing it among the Victorian wave of clubs established as golf spread across England in the final decades of the nineteenth century. The eighteen-hole course sits on the southern edge of Bristol, in the village of Long Ashton itself, which lies just beyond the city boundary in North Somerset, close to the Avon Gorge and the high ground of Ashton Court and Dundry Down. This part of the Bristol fringe combines the wooded, hilly terrain typical of the Avon valley with easy access to the city centre, only a few miles from Bristol's core via the A38 or the Cumberland Basin. The club's parkland setting reflects the area's mix of estate land and pasture, land that has resisted the suburban development found closer to the city on its northern and eastern sides. At well over 130 years old, Long Ashton is among the longer-established golf clubs serving the Bristol area, predating much of the city's twentieth-century expansion into North Somerset and giving it a settled position within the local golfing landscape.