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UK. England. Lincolnshire. 52°40′39″N 0°19′02″W / 52.6776°N 0.3173°W / 52.6776; -0.3173. Market Deeping is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, on the north bank of the River Welland and the A15 road. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 6,008. [2]
Deeping St James lies 1 mile (1.6 km) east from Market Deeping, to which it is conjoined, and on the River Welland, at the centre of rich sedimentary agricultural land on the B1166 and B1162 roads. With a population of 6,923 in 2,837 households, it is the largest of The Deepings parishes. [ 11 ]
The newly-formed Market Deeping Town Council took a lease on the building from South Kesteven District Council in 1977, and started to use the building as its main meeting place. [11] In 2012 a plaque was attached to the front of the town hall, above the window in the left hand bay, to recognise the selection of Market Deeping as an Olympic ...
Road bowling (Irish: Ból an bhóthair; also called [long] bullets) [1][2] is an Irish sport in which competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads. [3] The sport originated in Ireland and is mainly played in counties Armagh and Cork. Road bowling in Ireland is governed by the ...
Stowgate. Stowgate is a small settlement in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) north-east from Deeping St James, and is linked to the Deepings group of villages. Stowgate contains very few houses, most of which are farmhouses. The settlement grew up around Stowgate Farm – the ...
a bowl that becomes the shot bowl (closest to the jack) without touching any other bowl during its delivery. dead end a partially completed end that has to be replayed, by reason of the jack going outside the rink or green boundaries, or an umpire ruling that due to an action, the head cannot be returned to its previous state. See also re-spot ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 September 2024. Class of sports in which a player rolls a ball towards a target This article is about bowling in general. For specific types of bowling, see Ten-pin bowling, Duckpin bowling, Candlepin bowling, Nine-pin bowling, and Five-pin bowling. For other uses, see Bowling (disambiguation). A ten ...
The Scottish National Bowls Championships is one of the oldest bowls competitions in the world. In 1892, James Brown of Sanquhar Bowling Club and Dr Clark of the Partick Bowling Club formed the Scottish Bowls Association and organised the first rink (fours) championship the following year at the Queen's Park Bowling Club, Glasgow (it was the first national championships and was known as the ...