Skinburness Duke's Head Hotel Golf Course History Document. For the purchase of the adjoining marsh land to use for Golf, Cricket and other games by then the owner Mr Edwin Banks 1890. Skinburness Hotel Golf Course, Silloth. (1890s) Skinburness was a short-lived course that appeared prior to the formation of the current Silloth club in 1892. The course was located two miles north of Silloth between the Hotel and Grune Point. First mention for the club was in a report in the Carlisle Patriot on Friday 4 April 1890 - "Golf could be played along the road to Skinburness, and might greatly improve Silloth."