NEHL - A nine hole golf course was opened at Cotham Stob Farm just before the First World War, with the land acquired in March of that year. It was opened for the Eaglescliffe and District Golf Club, with a Newcastle Journal piece from 1914 stating it was only "quarter of an hour's walk" from Eaglescliffe station and accessible from Yarm, Hartburn and Stockton.

The report also states a clubhouse was expected to be constructed and already 80 men and 50 women had promised their membership.

The course closed in 1927 with the opening of a newer course near Eaglescliffe.