Ramsbury & Aldbourne Bowls Club

Welcome to our website! Here you will find all you need to know about the beautiful sport and pastime of Lawn Bowls. Please look around the site which is full of information about Bowls and remember, wherever you see green text click on it for more detailed information.

This is a sport for all ages. Younger players are welcome at Ramsbury and Albourne Bowls Club from the age of 12 to 16 and pay a reduced membership fee of £45.00 until aged 17.

Adult membership (18 to 90+) is just £115.00 per season with no other fees to pay unless the various internal and Wiltshire League competitions available are entered.

However, if you want to give it a try, but are unsure if you would want to join, you can come along for a free months trial, all equipment including Bowls is provided. You just have to wear flat shoes to protect the green.

Bowls is quiet unique in that there is no difference between the ability of male or female players and everyone can enter most of the various competitions.

Bowls also offers a friendly social life with twice weekly “roll up” nights where all members are welcome and have the opportunity to play against other members of varying abilities.

Why not give it a try next year – when the new season is underway in April.

The Club will open in April for the 2027 season.

So, please don’t be shy, come along to the Bowls Club any Tuesday or Thursday evening at 5pm. You will get a warm welcome. 

Everyone is welcome, boys and girls, ladies and men from 12 to 99 years old.

The season runs from April to September each year.

The Bowls Club is now closed for play until April 2027

However, our excellent maintenance team, under the guidance of Bob Black, will work all winter to ensure the green remains possibly the best in Wiltshire for next season.

We hope to see you then! 

Ramsbury and Aldbourne Bowls Club entered teams in the new mixed triples, Saturday morning, friendly league starting in May. This league is organised by Bowls Wiltshire.

There are 3 leagues of 8 teams local to each other to reduce travelling times.

The teams are from Purton, Wroughton, Cricklade, Stratton Churchways, Supermarine, Pewsey, Royal Wootten Basset and Calne.

This is a friendly league, organised to provide all clubs with the opportunity to play for fun on Saturdays in a mixed friendly.

We are using two mixed triples and we will be able to give every member the chance to play without the commitment to play every Saturday.

This semi-fun league allows us to play other clubs not in our other leagues and to see other Greens in our area.

So many younger people are discovering the joy of Bowls. The Club offers reduced membership fees for young people accepted by the committee. A good time to try is during the school summer holidays, another fun way of passing some time in the sun!

If interested please enquire at

We are absolutely delighted to welcome Reeds Hearing Care who have kindly offered to sponsor our club.

Click on the Sponsors tab, above right, to find out more about them.

There are many health benefits gained from playing Bowls. This is true for all ages but more specifically for the over 50’s.

Extract – “Regular bowls playing will improve strength, reduced risk of falls considerably, reduce mobility related illness and promote longevity and health”

Read the attached article for full details.

The Falklands Islands Team came to Ramsbury ahead of the Island Games

The Falkland Islands bowls team is travelled to Ramsbury and Aldbourne Club for a much anticipated week of training ahead of the 2025 Island Games, which was held in Orkney.
The team will covered more than 8,000 miles before arriving at Ramsbury for their final preparations ahead of their first fixture in Orkney.

This will be the second time the team competes at the event, after a brilliant debut at the 2023 Guernsey Island Games where they brought home a silver medal in the OpenTriples.

The Games brought a new challenge, as it was be the first time lawn bowls is played following indoor competitions in 2023 and 2005. That made the visit to Ramsbury even more important, giving the team a proper chance to get used to playing on real grass greens. Back in the Falklands, training has taken place in some very creative locations over the years, including a school corridor and on taped together mats, so
getting out onto a purpose built outdoor green will be a welcome step up.

“We are really looking forward to it,” said team member Oliver Thompson. “Practising on a proper grass green is going to be great preparation, and it is always a bonus to visit a club that is so friendly and welcoming. We really appreciate the support.”

The team travelling to the 2025 Games was the largest international bowls squad the Falklands has ever sent, with nine players in total. Managed by Nancy Locke, the team includes three players making their international debuts: Ian Barnes, Kris Thorsen and Teddy Summers. They will be joining a solid core of experienced players, including Chris Locke, Daphne Arthur Almond and Andrea Stanworth, who competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Sharon Barnes who competed at the Champion of
Champions in 2024. Sybie Summers had played at the 2023 Guernsey Island Hames and Oliver Thompson rounds out the squad, bringing experience from the year’s World Indoor Bowls Championship in Aberdeen.

The Island Games are often described as a mini Olympics for smaller nations and territories, with teams from places such as Guernsey, Jersey and Greenland taking part. But more than just the sport, it is about connection, friendship and representing your home with pride — something the Falkland Islands are once again honoured and excited to be part of.