Bowls England National Championships (women's singles four wood)

English National Bowls Championships
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The women's singles four wood is one of the events at the annual Bowls England National Championships.[1][2]

The four-wood singles is the traditional variation of the game; see Glossary of bowls terms.

Venues

  • 1932–1933 (Blackheath & Greenwich Club)
  • 1934–1934 (Balham Constitutional Bowls Club)
  • 1935–1936 (Pitshanger Park, Ealing)
  • 1937–1974 (Wimbledon Park)
  • 1975–2024 (Victoria Park, Royal Leamington Spa)

Sponsors

Past winners

Year Champion Club County Runner-up Club County Ref
1932 Ethel Tigg Waddon Residents Surrey Mrs Hope Maidenhead Berkshire [3]
1933 Louisa King Waddon Residents Surrey Mrs Harris Torquay Devon [4]
1934 Mrs S. Holman Waddon Residents Surrey Mrs Harris Blackheath Kent [5]
1935 Mrs McDanall Torbay County Devon Mrs Harris Blackheath Kent [6]
1936 Lily Parnell Clarence Park Somerset Josephine Culling Brightlingsea Essex [7]
1937 Mrs Batsford Temple Fortune Middlesex Mrs E. Sayer Oxted Surrey [8]
1938 Josephine Culling Brightlingsea Essex Mrs C L Veasey Dulwich Surrey [9]
1939 Violet Howard Newton Abbot Devon Mrs Worth Victoria Leicestershire [10]
1940–1944 No competition due to war
1946 Maud Chillman Hampden Park Sussex Miss Crawford Bournemouth Hampshire [11]
1947 Clara Johns Hastings Sussex Mrs B. Simister Southgate Middlesex [12]
1948 Violet Woodhead (née Howard) Paignton Devon Mrs Harding Eastbourne Sussex [13]
1949 Maud Chillman Hampden Park Sussex Mrs Oliver New Lampton Durham [14]
1950 Ena Buckland South Norwood Surrey Mrs L. E. Harris Durham City Durham [15]
1951 Bessie Burden Ashford Kent May Colquhoun Lammas Middlesex [16]
1952 Marjorie Colley Torbay Country Devon Evelyn Courtenay Yeovil Somerset [17]
1953 Ivy May Lavender Hastings & St. Leonards Sussex Edith May Hook Stroud Gloucestershire [18]
1954 Dorothy Franklin Sheen Surrey Gladys Hillier Bogonor Regis Sussex [19]
1955 Annie Beath Zetland Park, Redcar Yorkshire Mrs D. C. Coleman Sheen Surrey [20]
1956 Nancie Whalley Frome Selwood Somerset May Colquhoun Lammas Middlesex [21]
1957 Florrie Wilson Hastings & St. Leonards Sussex Clara McNaughton Whitely & Monkseaton Northumberland [22]
1958 Nancie Whalley Frome Selwood Somerset Mavis Steele Harrow Middlesex [23]
1959 Joyce Lucking Windsor Castle Berkshire Annie Beath Zetland Park, Redcar Yorkshire [24]
1960 Louisa Coxall Milton Regis Kent Helen Jolliffe Harrogate Yorkshire [25]
1961 Mavis Steele Watling Middlesex Edith Ferry Stratton Church Ways Wiltshire [26]
1962 Mavis Steele Watling Middlesex Minnie Powell Tally Ho Warwickshire [27]
1963 Frances Carvell Gunnersbury Middlesex Mary Linfield Maltravers Sussex [28]
1964 Daisy Dowling West Streatham Surrey Joyce Lucking Royal Household Berkshire [29]
1965 Janet Auld Silksworth Durham Eleanor Routledge Silloth Cumberland [30]
1966 Dora Hills Morpeth Northumberland Ena Buckland South Norwood Surrey [31]
1967 Dorothy Payne Greenhill Dorset Eva Harris Rugby Town Warwickshire [32]
1968 Lilian Bufton Tally Ho Warwickshire Dorothy Tayler Newquay Cornwall [33]
1969 Mavis Steele Watling Middlesex Mollie Ward Sparrows Nest Suffolk [34]
1970 Nancie Colling (née Whalley) Frome Selwood Somerset Mavis Steele Watling Middlesex [35]
1971 Christine Frost Phear Park Devon Daphne Leese Hornsey Middlesex [36]
1972 Mollie Ward Sparrows Nest Suffolk Mrs A Russell Luton Co-op Bedfordshire [37]
1973 Eileen King Poole Park Dorset Anne Shipton Broadstone Dorset [38]
1974 Vera Peck Eye Suffolk Joan Sparkes Central Park Essex [39]
1975 Ivy Lawson Spennymoor Durham Margo Attwood Street Somerset [40]
1976 Jeannie Croot Canford Gloucestershire Pamela Allison Oxford City Oxfordshire [41]
1977 Betty Stubbings Pickering Yorkshire Norma Shaw Ropner Park Durham [42]
1978 Eileen Logan Bounds Green Middlesex Brenda Atherton Plessey Nottinghamshire [43]
1979 Lorraine Hawes Bracknell Berkshire Margaret Fawkes Bogonor Regis Sussex [44]
1980 Phyllis Derrick Magdalen Park Surrey Joan Haynes Peterborough Huntingdonshire [45]
1981 Margaret Madden Wilton Recar Yorkshire Christine Rumball Watford Hertfordshire [46]
1982 Wendy Clarke Southampton Hampshire Phoebe Spence Middlesbrough Yorkshire [47]
1983 Jean Valls Raynes Park Surrey Mary Price Burnham Buckinghamshire [48]
1984 Olive Henery Swindon Wiltshire Madeline Gooding Exmouth Devon [49]
1985 Ena Clarke Countesthorpe Leicestershire Wendy Line Southampton Hampshire [50]
1986 Betty Maisey Barking Essex Jayne Roylance North Walsham Norfolk [51]
1987 Norma May Camborne Cornwall Mary Price Burnham Buckinghamshire [52]
1988 Mary Price Burnham Buckinghamshire Wendy Barnard Brixham Devon [53]
1989 Jean Baker Alfreton Derbyshire Wendy Line Southampton Hampshire [54]
1990 Barbara Till Milton Park Hampshire Joan Howlett West Bridgford Nottinghamshire [55]
1991 Jean Evans Perkins Huntingdonshire Edna Bessell Yeovil Somerset [56]
1992 Wendy Line Southampton Hampshire Liz Shorter County Arts Norfolk [57]
1993 Dorothy Prior Hewell Redditch Worcestershire Carole Lloyd Milton Park Hampshire [58]
1994 Ingrid Betke Thaxted Essex Pat Kirk Wealdstone Middlesex [59]
1995 Janet Newman St Austell Cornwall Vi Wade Kingsthorpe Northamptonshire [60]
1996 Mary Price Burnham Buckinghamshire Katherine Hawes Oxford City Oxfordshire [61]
1997 Mary Price Burnham Buckinghamshire Jean Baker Blackwell Derbyshire [62]
1998 Norma Shaw Norton-on-Tees Durham Gill Mitchell Kettering Lodge Northamptonshire [63]
1999 Joyce Hadfield Newquay Cornwall Jayne Smith Henlow Park Bedfordshire [64]
2000 Ann Anderson Woodland Darlington County Durham Janet Green West Moors Dorset [65]
2001 Sue Harriott Exmouth Madeira Devon Pat Kirk Wealdstone Middx [66]
2002 Helen Wall South Derbyshire Derbyshire Jayne Christie Henlow Park Bedfordshire [67]
2003 Shirley Page Baldock Hertfordshire Wendy King Milton Regis Kent [68]
2004 Amy Monkhouse Waltham Park Lincolnshire Norma Beales Burnham Buckinghamshire [69]
2005 Julie Saunders Richmond Park Hampshire Sue Davies Broadway Worcestershire [70]
2006 Barbara Adams Market Bosworth Leicestershire Barbara Bellamy Newton Abbot Devon [71]
2007 Edna Bessell Yeovil Somerset Ellen Falkner City of Ely Cambridgeshire [72]
2008 Edna Bessell Yeovil Somerset Margaret Watts Desborough Northamptonshire [72]
2009 Jayne Croxall Mansfield Nottinghamshire Sally Butcher Borough of Eve Suffolk [72]
2010 Natalie Melmore Kings Devon Jackie Gibson Thetford Staniforth Norfolk [72]
2011 Ellen Falkner St. Neots Cambridgeshire Amy Gowshall Cleethorpes Lincolnshire [72]
2012 Amy Truran Homefield Park Sussex Amy Gowshall Cleethorpes Lincolnshire [72]
2013 Amy Truran Homefield Park Sussex Sue Davies Broadway Worcestershire [72]
2014 Natalie Melmore Kings Devon Sue Evans Honiton Devon [72]
2015 Sophie Tolchard Kings Devon Gemma Barnett Cheam Surrey [72]
2016 Donna Knight Oxford City Oxfordshire Rachel Mackriell Eastbourne Sussex [72]
2017 Kirsty Richards Kings Heath Warks Natalie Chestney Kings Devon [73]
2018 Sophie Tolchard Kings Devon Amy Gowshall Cleethorpes Lincs [74]
2019 Jamie-Lea Winch Kingscroft Leics Teresa Parnell Stockton Durham [75]
No competition due to COVID-19 pandemic [76]
2021 Stef Branfield Clevedon Somerset Chris Mitchell Purton Wiltshire [72]
2022 Rebecca Moorbey Parkway Hunts Elaine Score Springhouse Essex [77]
2023 Stef Branfield Clevedon Somerset Jayne Christie Potton Bedfordshire [78]
2024 Izzie White Chester Road Worcs Anne Bernard Ryde Marina IOW [79]

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