Fulford Grove

The name

Fulford Grove takes its name from Fulford Golf Club. It hosted the Benson & Hedges International on the European Tour from 1971 to 1989, and Bernhard Langer famously climbed a tree there to play a shot in 1981.

Where the club's facts come from: History and Heritage, Fulford Golf Club, the club's own history.

How sure we are of the match: Strong

The estate's streets were named after golf courses. The streets page explains how each match was made.

In the story

• Hole 7
  The fairway ran west across today's football pitches to a green near the southern edge of the fields, north of the Fulford Grove houses, which now cover the old orchard.
• Hole 8
  The tee was in the small clump of trees on the southern edge of the fields, behind Fulford Grove.
• Streets of 1947 to 1953
  Fulford Grove: Children on the new pavements here were caught by the council photographer in July 1951.

Close by

Buildings

• South Oxhey Baptist Church 270 m
• Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve 280 m
• Hayling Road, the first homes 280 m
• Estate timber yard, Paddock Spring 290 m
• Site of Oxhey Place farm 340 m

Ancient woods

• Ox Pasture Spring (by Gosforth Lane) 270 m
• Oxhey Woods, northern part (Old and Young Hangings, Little Furze Field, The Plantation) 320 m
• Big Wood 540 m

Walk stops

• Fulford Grove 20 m
  Streets of 1947 to 1953 walk
• Harewood Road 180 m
  Streets of 1947 to 1953 walk
• Trevose Way 190 m
  Streets of 1947 to 1953 walk

Distances are in a straight line from a point on the street.