This golf course is first depicted on the 1988 OS map. Prior to this the area is shown as Grange Park, forming part of the landscaped grounds of Thundercliffe Grange. An early industrial complex was established here by 1160 by the monks of Kirkstead Abbey from which the grange name derives. The monks established an ironworks, mining iron ore and coal and smelting and forging iron at the location. Little survives on the golf course apart from in the woods but the name 'grange' persists making legibility of the former landscape fragmentary.