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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