The Forgotten Garden
Adventure Golf
Words: The Alnwick Garden
T
he Duchess of Northumberland officially
launched our new Forgotten Garden Adventure
Golf course, which features animatronic creatures
and a walk-through hornets’ nest. The Forgotten
Garden is inspired by nature and include
toadstools, a sleeping giant, a huge worm and a
large broken flower pot. It also has a variety of sound
effects. Our course has 13 holes and offers a
challenging but fun experience for young and old
alike. It opened in June but was officially launched
on 2nd August by the Duchess with youngsters
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from our Forget-Me-Not project, which delivers fun
activities for children with additional needs. As a
stamp of approval, our course has also recently won
a prestigious Golden Trowel Award for its design.
The Duchess said: “I think the course is great and an
example of how it is possible to combine something
that is tasteful and fits in with The Alnwick Garden.
It brings another attraction to the area and anything
extra that we can do for Alnwick has got to be good. I
was involved in the design and the plan is to have the
course open throughout the year and use it for events
such as Hallowe’en and over the winter period.” The
Forgotten Garden Adventure Golf is located next to
the existing Gift Shop and close to the Stuart
Halbert Elderberries Room. The course has been
created by using onsite materials including natural
rocks, old stone and wood, and is built around
existing trees. One of the young people from the
Forget-Me-Not project to try out the course was Amy
Davison. The 15-year-old from Guidepost said: “I
think it is a really good course and it is challenging
in parts. I think it will really feed children’s
imaginations.”