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

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

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

Venues

Sponsors

Past winners

YearChampionClubCountyRunner-upClubCountyRef
1932Ethel TiggWaddon ResidentsSurreyMrs HopeMaidenheadBerkshire [3]
1933Louisa KingWaddon ResidentsSurreyMrs HarrisTorquayDevon [4]
1934Mrs S. HolmanWaddon ResidentsSurreyMrs HarrisBlackheathKent [5]
1935Mrs McDanallTorbay CountyDevonMrs HarrisBlackheathKent [6]
1936Lily ParnellClarence ParkSomersetJosephine CullingBrightlingseaEssex [7]
1937Mrs BatsfordTemple FortuneMiddlesexMrs E. SayerOxtedSurrey [8]
1938Josephine CullingBrightlingseaEssexMrs C L VeaseyDulwichSurrey [9]
1939Violet HowardNewton AbbotDevonMrs WorthVictoriaLeicestershire [10]
1940–1944 No competition due to war
1946Maud ChillmanHampden ParkSussexMiss CrawfordBournemouthHampshire [11]
1947Clara JohnsHastingsSussexMrs B. SimisterSouthgateMiddlesex [12]
1948Violet Woodhead (née Howard)PaigntonDevonMrs HardingEastbourneSussex [13]
1949Maud ChillmanHampden ParkSussexMrs OliverNew LamptonDurham [14]
1950Ena BucklandSouth NorwoodSurreyMrs L. E. HarrisDurham CityDurham [15]
1951Bessie BurdenAshfordKentMay ColquhounLammasMiddlesex [16]
1952Marjorie ColleyTorbay CountryDevonEvelyn CourtenayYeovilSomerset [17]
1953Ivy May LavenderHastings & St. LeonardsSussexEdith May HookStroudGloucestershire [18]
1954Dorothy FranklinSheenSurreyGladys HillierBogonor RegisSussex [19]
1955Annie BeathZetland Park, RedcarYorkshireMrs D. C. ColemanSheenSurrey [20]
1956 Nancie Whalley Frome SelwoodSomersetMay ColquhounLammasMiddlesex [21]
1957Florrie WilsonHastings & St. LeonardsSussexClara McNaughtonWhitely & MonkseatonNorthumberland [22]
1958 Nancie Whalley Frome SelwoodSomerset Mavis Steele HarrowMiddlesex [23]
1959Joyce LuckingWindsor CastleBerkshireAnnie BeathZetland Park, RedcarYorkshire [24]
1960Louisa CoxallMilton RegisKentHelen JolliffeHarrogateYorkshire [25]
1961 Mavis Steele WatlingMiddlesexEdith FerryStratton Church WaysWiltshire [26]
1962 Mavis Steele WatlingMiddlesexMinnie PowellTally HoWarwickshire [27]
1963Frances CarvellGunnersburyMiddlesexMary LinfieldMaltraversSussex [28]
1964Daisy DowlingWest StreathamSurreyJoyce LuckingRoyal HouseholdBerkshire [29]
1965Janet AuldSilksworthDurhamEleanor RoutledgeSillothCumberland [30]
1966Dora HillsMorpethNorthumberlandEna BucklandSouth NorwoodSurrey [31]
1967Dorothy PayneGreenhillDorsetEva HarrisRugby TownWarwickshire [32]
1968Lilian BuftonTally HoWarwickshireDorothy TaylerNewquayCornwall [33]
1969 Mavis Steele WatlingMiddlesexMollie WardSparrows NestSuffolk [34]
1970 Nancie Colling (née Whalley)Frome SelwoodSomerset Mavis Steele WatlingMiddlesex [35]
1971Christine FrostPhear ParkDevonDaphne LeeseHornseyMiddlesex [36]
1972Mollie WardSparrows NestSuffolkMrs A RussellLuton Co-opBedfordshire [37]
1973 Eileen King Poole ParkDorsetAnne ShiptonBroadstoneDorset [38]
1974Vera PeckEyeSuffolk Joan Sparkes Central ParkEssex [39]
1975Ivy LawsonSpennymoorDurhamMargo AttwoodStreetSomerset [40]
1976Jeannie CrootCanfordGloucestershirePamela AllisonOxford CityOxfordshire [41]
1977 Betty Stubbings PickeringYorkshire Norma Shaw Ropner ParkDurham [42]
1978 Eileen Logan Bounds GreenMiddlesex Brenda Atherton PlesseyNottinghamshire [43]
1979Lorraine HawesBracknellBerkshireMargaret FawkesBogonor RegisSussex [44]
1980 Phyllis Derrick Magdalen ParkSurreyJoan HaynesPeterboroughHuntingdonshire [45]
1981Margaret MaddenWilton RecarYorkshireChristine RumballWatfordHertfordshire [46]
1982Wendy ClarkeSouthamptonHampshirePhoebe SpenceMiddlesbroughYorkshire [47]
1983 Jean Valls Raynes ParkSurrey Mary Price BurnhamBuckinghamshire [48]
1984Olive HenerySwindonWiltshireMadeline GoodingExmouthDevon [49]
1985Ena ClarkeCountesthorpeLeicestershire Wendy Line SouthamptonHampshire [50]
1986Betty MaiseyBarkingEssex Jayne Roylance North WalshamNorfolk [51]
1987 Norma May CamborneCornwall Mary Price BurnhamBuckinghamshire [52]
1988 Mary Price BurnhamBuckinghamshireWendy BarnardBrixhamDevon [53]
1989 Jean Baker AlfretonDerbyshire Wendy Line SouthamptonHampshire [54]
1990 Barbara Till Milton ParkHampshireJoan HowlettWest BridgfordNottinghamshire [55]
1991Jean EvansPerkinsHuntingdonshire Edna Bessell YeovilSomerset [56]
1992 Wendy Line SouthamptonHampshireLiz ShorterCounty ArtsNorfolk [57]
1993Dorothy PriorHewell RedditchWorcestershireCarole LloydMilton ParkHampshire [58]
1994Ingrid BetkeThaxtedEssexPat KirkWealdstoneMiddlesex [59]
1995Janet NewmanSt AustellCornwallVi WadeKingsthorpeNorthamptonshire [60]
1996 Mary Price BurnhamBuckinghamshire Katherine Hawes Oxford CityOxfordshire [61]
1997 Mary Price BurnhamBuckinghamshire Jean Baker BlackwellDerbyshire [62]
1998 Norma Shaw Norton-on-TeesDurham Gill Mitchell Kettering LodgeNorthamptonshire [63]
1999Joyce HadfieldNewquayCornwall Jayne Smith Henlow ParkBedfordshire [64]
2000Ann AndersonWoodland DarlingtonCounty DurhamJanet GreenWest MoorsDorset [65]
2001 Sue Harriott Exmouth MadeiraDevonPat KirkWealdstoneMiddx [66]
2002Helen WallSouth DerbyshireDerbyshire Jayne Christie Henlow ParkBedfordshire [67]
2003 Shirley Page BaldockHertfordshire Wendy King Milton RegisKent [68]
2004 Amy Monkhouse Waltham ParkLincolnshireNorma BealesBurnhamBuckinghamshire [69]
2005 Julie Saunders Richmond ParkHampshireSue DaviesBroadwayWorcestershire [70]
2006Barbara AdamsMarket BosworthLeicestershireBarbara BellamyNewton AbbotDevon [71]
2007 Edna Bessell YeovilSomerset Ellen Falkner City of ElyCambridgeshire [72]
2008 Edna Bessell YeovilSomersetMargaret WattsDesboroughNorthamptonshire [72]
2009Jayne CroxallMansfieldNottinghamshireSally ButcherBorough of EveSuffolk [72]
2010 Natalie Melmore KingsDevonJackie GibsonThetford StaniforthNorfolk [72]
2011 Ellen Falkner St. NeotsCambridgeshire Amy Gowshall CleethorpesLincolnshire [72]
2012Amy TruranHomefield ParkSussex Amy Gowshall CleethorpesLincolnshire [72]
2013Amy TruranHomefield ParkSussexSue DaviesBroadwayWorcestershire [72]
2014 Natalie Melmore KingsDevonSue EvansHonitonDevon [72]
2015 Sophie Tolchard KingsDevonGemma BarnettCheamSurrey [72]
2016Donna KnightOxford CityOxfordshireRachel MackriellEastbourneSussex [72]
2017Kirsty RichardsKings HeathWarwickshire Natalie Chestney KingsDevon [73]
2018 Sophie Tolchard KingsDevon Amy Gowshall CleethorpesLincolnshire [74]
2019 Jamie-Lea Winch KingscroftLeicestershireTeresa ParnellStocktonDurham [75]
No competition due to COVID-19 pandemic [76]
2021 Stef Branfield ClevedonSomersetChris MitchellPurtonWiltshire [72]
2022 Rebecca MoorbeyParkwayHuntingdonshireElaine ScoreSpringhouseEssex [77]
2022

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