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Bowls England is the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport of Flat Green Lawn Bowls in England. It was formed as a company limited by guarantee on 1st January 2008 following a unification of the English Bowling Association (EBA) and English Women's Bowling Association (EWBA). |
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Oxfordshire Bowling Association was founded in 1907 to bring together under one association all the bowls clubs then existing in Oxfordshire. The first President of this Association was the 7th Earl of Jersey (V.A.G. Child-Villiers) representing the Middleton Park club, who had previously played with the Royal New South Wales Bowling Association in Australia, where he was Governor. |
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Bowls Oxfordshire is the unified governing body for outdoor bowls in Oxfordshire as agreed at the inaugural General Meeting on Wednesday, 21st October 2009. The history of bowls in Oxfordshire indeed goes back to the sixteenth century as within the city of Oxford there were four recorded bowling alleys in the year 1508, and University students were playing the sport certainly by 1530. The first council owned green was opened in 1631 in George Street (then known as Broken Hayes). |
