Peterborough Milton Golf Club

The following edited extract is taken from John F. Moreton and Iain Cumming’s book James Braid and his Four Hundred Golf Courses “The 6th Earl of Fitzwilliam was a keen golfer and had a private course in his back garden at Milton Hall. A far-sighted man, the earl recognized that Peterborough was a town ripe for development. Rather than permit his land to be purchased for housing or industry, he invited two local 9-hole clubs [Peterborough and Milton Park]…