Golf in Ambler

Ambler is a former asbestos-manufacturing borough in Montgomery County that has transformed itself into one of the Philadelphia region's more culturally active small towns, with a theater district along Butler Avenue and a housing stock of Victorian and Edwardian row buildings that survived deindustrialization intact. The Wissahickon Creek corridor flows just to the east, and the broader watershed shapes the borough's topographic character — Ambler sits on rising ground above the creek, giving the area more elevation than the flat suburban plain to the south. Whitpain and Horsham townships surround the borough, and the Route 309 corridor north of Philadelphia has made Ambler accessible from both the city and the outlying northern suburbs. Golf in the Ambler area benefits from Montgomery County's dense population and the established residential communities that have made this part of the county consistently affluent through multiple economic cycles.