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Curling

Alnwick Curling Pond

55.420659, -1.715612

Alnwick

Opened:

c1880s

Closed:

20th c

Preserved

Condition:

Home Teams/Clubs:

Last Updated:

3 Dec 2024

Alnwick Curling Club

HER Description

NEHL - Alnwick featured its own curling pond from around the 1880s, and is still extant near the Canongate Bridge on the north side. The first mention of the Alnwick Curlers is in 1881, though notes it had "awoke from its slumbers and entered on a new lease of life", indicating it had been around for at least a year or two. They met with the Berwick club off the train in the January of 1881 marking its first recorded match though north of the Tweed and not here. It appears however that after this it again fell dormant. A piece in the Alnwick Guardian of 06/02/1886 from an anonymous writer wonders why there was "not a sufficient number in the town to form a good curling club", and understand there is "the remnant of one, which had some good practice a few years ago".

It appears the pond was used intermittently, and recreationally thereon as there is little mention other than the labelling on the Ordnance Survey maps themselves. The pond however is still extant though not used for curling.

Ordnance Survey

'Sketches of The Coal Mines in Northumberland and Durham' T.H.Hair, published in 1844

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'Sketches of The Coal Mines in Northumberland and Durham' T.H.Hair, published in 1844

Historic Environment Records

Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past

Tyne and Wear: Sitelines

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