Bowls can be played all-year round. In summer bowls is generally played outdoors on a flat green (lawn bowls) or sloping green (crown green bowls) but in winter it is played indoors. Indoor bowling has two main forms – long-mat and short-mat.
Short-mat bowls in Welburn village hall, North Yorkshire
Long-mat bowls (or indoor bowls) requires special facilities such as those provided at Ryedale Indoor Bowls Club, located in Norton on Derwent, Malton.
Short-mat bowls requires a suitable carpet but can be played in any hall of sufficient length and width. Thus, for example, short-mat bowls clubs often use the local village hall. There are two leagues operating in the Ryedale area – the Ryedale League (RL) and Dales League (DL). Local short-mat clubs (with the leagues they play in) include:
BSA (Swinton) DL
Helmsley DL, RL
Kirby Misperton RL
Kirkbymoorside DL, RL
Marton DL
Thornton le Dale DL, RL
St Cuthberts (Stillington) RL
Welburn RL
Wintringham –
Yedingham –
Since the winter of 2020/1 the BSA (Swinton) club have been playing at Ryedale Indoor Bowls Club.
More information about short mat bowls here and elsewhere in North Yorkshire can be found on website www.nysmba.com
Outdoor or Lawn Green Bowls
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Welham Outdoor Bowling Club, is an attractive club located in Norton on Derwent. The picture shows the view across the green towards the centre of Malton
There are four leagues in which local clubs participate:
Batagas (BT): Triples, Monday and Friday evening
Hovingham (HF): Fours, Tuesday and Thursday evening
Huby (HT): Triples, Tuesday and Thursday evening
Ryedale Vets (RV): Triples, Wednesday afternoon (For older players)
Local Lawn Green bowls clubs (and the leagues in which the play) include:
Easingwold BT, HT, RV
Harome HT, RV
Helmsley BT, HF, RV
Heslerton BT
Hovingham BT, HT
Huby HT, RV
Hutton le Hole HT, RV
Kirkbymoorside BT, HF, RV
Malton BT, RV (website: www.maltonbowlsclub.org )
Pickering BT, HF, RV
Sessay HF
Settrington BT, HF
Sheriff Hutton RV
Stillington HF
Strensall BT, RV
Swinton BT, HF, RV
Terrington BT, HT
Thirsk Athletic HF
Welham (Norton on Derwent) BT website: www.welhamlawnbowls.wordpress.com
Wiggington BT, HT, RV
More details about these clubs can be found on the League websites:
Batagas League: www.batagasbowls.wordpress.com
Hovingham League: https://www.hugofox.com/community/hovingham-district-bowls-league-13468/contact/
Huby League: 
Ryedale Vets League: https://ryedaledistrictveteransbowlsleague.wordpress.com
View local contacts https://ryedalebowls.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/contacts.pdf
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Local Outdoor Bowling Club Contact Details
Club Contact Tel email
Driffield Town Sue Medcalf 07969313848
Driffield Rec Janet Spear 01377255975 driffrecbowls10@gmail.com
Easingwold Steve Brown 07742664029 brown_s63@sky.com
Harome Malcolm Armstrong 07773556251 malcolma1@live.co.uk
Helmsley Lucy Johnson 07874279399 lucyjohnson9299@gmail.com
Hovingham Ann Vardy 07732585263 ann_vardy@hotmail.com
Huby Freddie Alnutt 07740414114 fred.hubybowlsclubsec@btinternet.com
Hutton Le Hole Jim Pewtress 01751431001 jimpewtress@gmail.com
Kirkbymoorside Gail Allan 07484120690 gail.allan@btinternet.com
Malton Ian Strangeway 07971779378 ianstrangeway@btinternet.com
Pickering Jean Smith 07825877429 jeansmith50@btinternet.com
Settrington Maureen Croser 07527069892 maureencroser@yahoo.co.uk
Sheriff Hutton Cherry W-Hammond 07789326664 cherry@brinkburnbarn.com
Sledmere Dave Foreman 01262488349 daveforeman@outlook.com
Stillington Nigel Marsh 07869467541 Nom1956@talktalk.net
Strensall Penny Parish 07810446019 pparish@doctors.org.uk
Swinton Lynne Metcalfe 01751475138 lynnemetcalfe@hotmail.co.uk
Terrington Dave Gaskell 07733312428 dave@gaskellfamily.plus.com
Thornton Le Dale Chris Gibbons 07944265932 gibbonsc1@yahoo.co.uk
Welham Tony Corcoran 07898662295 thcorcoran47@gmail.com
Wetwang Denise Stead 01377240800 denisestead@aol.com
Wiggington John Graham 07785921226 johnd.graham@btinrternet.com
This page will be used to provide more details of other bowling activity within Ryedale and the Norton-Malton area of North Yorkshire. Many details about bowls activities in Ryedale can be found here
Ryedale Indoor Bowls Club 