About Eastville Park
Bowls Club

​Lawn bowls is a simple game that you can learn in minutes but take a lifeltime to master. It requires skill, dexterity, tenacity, tactics and a fair bit of luck.

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Each bowl has a weighted bias to allow the ball to curve towards, or away from, the target ball [the Jack], and the player, or team, who gets their bowls closest to the Jack scores the points. 

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Lawn Bowlers have been playing on the greens in Eastville Park since 1910 and over the years there have been many different bowls club in the park; and we still have the old woods and honours boards from those earlier generations of bowlers.

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The current club formed at the end of the 2019 season and took over using the greens around the historic buildings in the top corner of the park from Eastvillains & Whithall Bowling Club. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic has prevented any play until this year.

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Traditionally, bowls is percieved as a game for the older members of our society; but at Eastville Park we are keen to break the sterotype and bring the game to a much wider range of participants, ​Everyone can come and play without the formality which is often a feature of more traditional bowling clubs.

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We want our membership to be fuilly inclusive and representative of our local community. We welcome you regardless of age, diversity and ability; and hope through our regular introductory sessions and community participation plans to bring you into the game.

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We welcome families to come and play and children under 16 are free, but need to be accompanied by a responsible person over 16 years old.

We have sets of bowls in vaious sizes, including smaller bowls suitable for children, for you to use. Or you can bring your own

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Come on down and have a bowl ..... it might just change your life.