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Golf Monthly
Golf Monthly
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Jeremy Ellwood

The First-Class Heathland Course Tucked Away In England's Very Smallest County

The excellent 7th hole at Luffenham Heath.

Rutland is England’s smallest county, wedged into an area just 18 miles long and up to 17 miles wide between Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Although small, the county does boast the very fine Harry Colt/Charles Alison heathland creation at Luffenham Heath, where golf has a real middle-of-nowhere feel to it. The course has long been a mainstay of Golf Monthly's 'Next 100 courses in the UK&I'.

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