Players at England’s oldest golf course told to let it crumble into the sea

 

 

England’s oldest golf course is slipping into the Bristol channel, and players and locals have been ordered to allow it to happen and stop shoring up its sea defences by hand.

As coastal erosion accelerates, the seventh and eighth holes at the 144-year-old Royal North Devon Golf Club near Westward Ho! could disappear as early as next year, according to senior club members.