Crown
Green
Bowling
Think it’s a Game for Old Men….. Think Again
Crown Green
Bowling
We are a year round Sports Club and
Social Club located in Longton
Lancashire. Although we were initially
formed over 90 years ago to promote
the sport of Crown Green Bowling and
Tennis, we do a lot more now.
We are always on the lookout for new
sports to get involved in or old ones
we that we used to to do and for one
reason or another no longer do.
Although the Crown Green Bowling
closes for 2 months of the year
(January & February) to allow for
planned maintenance, The boules
pistes are available all year round as
of course the Snooker is.
Crown Green Bowls
A Crown Green is a square lawn
slightly higher in the middle than at
the edges and play is conducted all
over the lawn in any direction making
for a great deal more variety than the
flat green game.
The game has always been associated
more with pubs and taverns than
Lawn Green bowls and although it
does not have the enormous
popularity of the flat green game, it
thrives very happily within its home
base of the North of England and the
North West Midlands.
Play is almost always singles and each
player bowls just two bowls each end.
The winner of each turn can play the
jack in any direction and at any
reasonable distance within the lawn
boundary which is a ditch. Some
players are best at bowling across the
hump, others along the sloping side,
some prefer short distances, others
long and so many additional tactical
complexities are introduced by the
unusual lawn. Watching the multiple
games occurring in all directions at
once across a crown green bowling
lawn is an spectating experience worth
seeking out. Somehow, the individual
games manage to intersect and cross
over each other without any adverse
consequences!
Crown Green Bowls is a well organised
sport arranged on a county basis.
Individual clubs, often affiliated to
pubs form teams that compete in
"midweek" leagues that are grassroots
of the sport and, at the next strata up,
counties hold their own competitions.
Crown Green Inter-County bowls
matches date back to 1893 when
Yorkshire and the combined county of
Lancashire & Cheshire began playing
friendly matches and this tradition has
carried on until the present day, with
the British Crown Green Bowls
Association taking over the
organisation of the competition in
1908. A complete history of this and
other competitions can be found on
the BCGBA site.
Longton VM Recreation Ground was
originally bought by the people of
Longton to be used in future for
Longton and
surrounding areas. So as you most
likely part own it, don’t you think it’s
time you used it?
CONTACT
e:info@longtonvm.co.uk
t: 01772 616974
ADDRESS
Longton VM
Victory Lane
Longton
Preston PR4 5DL
Lancashire
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