When James VI and I became King of England in 1603, he introduced the sport of golf to the country.

The first games of golf in England were played at Molesey, in Westminster and Greenwich Park which were large open spaces near to royal palaces.

[3] It hosted for some decades Hurst Park horse race course, evinced by an 1872 Ordnance Survey map.

In May of 1810, Dutch Sam defeated Ben Medley in front of a reported ten thousand spectators at Moulsey Hill.

[5] In 2004, Hurst Park Residents Association laid out a "heritage marker" close to the river, which contains a number of illustrations of the history and activities of the area.