Mannings Heath Golf Club

Mannings Heath Golf Club lies near Horsham, in the Sussex Weald, an area of sandstone ridges and heathland that gives this part of West Sussex a different character from the chalk downs further south. Horsham sits roughly midway between Gatwick and the coast, in a belt of the Weald long associated with historic ironworking and, later, with heathland golf courses built on the area's characteristic sandy, heather-covered ground. The club occupies a historic estate setting, a pattern common to Wealden golf clubs founded on land that once formed part of a country house's grounds, with mature woodland forming a backdrop to the course. This heathland ground, drier and sandier than the clay of the Weald's farmland, has made the area around Horsham a recognised pocket of heather-and-pine golf within Sussex, distinct from the county's downland links closer to the coast. For golfers exploring West Sussex's inland courses, Mannings Heath's position within this estate and heathland landscape places it among the county's more distinctive settings away from the seaside links further south.