Founder members of a Gloucestershire golf club helped celebrate its 30th anniversary yesterday.

Around 50 founder members of Brickhampton Court Golf Club and their partners gathered for a cheese & wine event to mark the landmark yesterday afternoon.

The members have all been part of Brickhampton Court since its inception.

As part of the celebrations the club presented a specially commissioned painting of the golf club and ten prints of the painting were sold off for £1,380 in aid of the Ed Slater MND fund.

All past members were also presented with a small gift as a keepsake and a thank you to them.

The biggest cheer of the night was reserved for club captain Nick Broady who received a standing ovation.

Established by the Creed family in 1994, Brickhampton Court consists of two stunning tree-lined golf courses set in 200 acres of Gloucestershire countryside that over the years have matured and now provide a great test of both ability and strategy.

Further complementing the golf courses are a 23-bay floodlit driving range, two teaching studios, a custom fitting studio and practice putting green, along with bar, restaurant and conferencing facilities.

The facility offers memberships to business as well as the normal five- and seven-day members. The club has thriving men's, ladies, seniors and a junior section which now boasts a membership of 180.

Brickhampton, which has about 1,000 members, is a proprietary club, so all its assets are owned by Brickhampton LLP.

Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Owen, who was a guest at the celebration, said: "What's really nice is they've all obviously been friends for a long time. It was a genuinely warm atmosphere celebrating 30 years of playing golf together and enjoying each other's company."

The course was created in 1994 by Terry Creed, of Creed Catering, who was also the first president of the golf club.

The place name Brickhampton is first recorded as Brithlmeton, between 1148 and 1179. This means Briththelms Farmstead from the Old English name plus tun. Later versions of the place name may result from the Old English bryce, Bridge.

There is a brook which runs through the course, Hatherley Brook, and a bridge over the brook is recorded as early as 1368. In 1993 the proprietors purchased the land known as Brickhampton Court Farm.

What it took to create the 199-acre course:

• Movements of 120,189 cubic metres of earth
• 20,900 square metres of land
• Four lakes containing 2 million gallons of water
• 20,000 metres of drainage
• 8,085 tonnes of sand and peat for the greens
• 13,871 kilograms of grass seed
• 16,922 kilos for fertiliser
• 20,965 trees planted