Dunstanburgh Castle Golf Course

The ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle lie on the Northumberland coast, between the villages of Craster and Embleton. Just to the north of this 14th-century fortification sits the self-deprecating 18-hole layout of Dunstanburgh Castle Golf Course, where the fairways run out close to the sandy beach of Embleton Bay. Owned by the National Trust but maintained by staff at the course, the links has been used for golf since 1900, when a 9-hole layout was first…