Moor Park Golf Club

Moor Park Golf Club lies near Rickmansworth, a town in Hertfordshire on the western edge of the Home Counties, within the WD3 postcode district shared with neighbouring Watford. The area sits inside the London Green Belt, a band of protected countryside that has kept much of Rickmansworth and the surrounding Chess and Colne valleys free from the capital's outward sprawl despite being barely twenty miles from central London. Hertfordshire as a whole has long attracted golf clubs of this kind, historic estates within commuting distance of the city that offer members a rural setting without a long journey from town. Rickmansworth itself grew around its position on the Grand Union Canal and the arrival of the Metropolitan line, which turned it into one of the earliest Metro-land commuter towns in the early twentieth century. That combination of London access and protected green space around Moor Park still defines the character of the area today, even as the wider county has grown considerably since.