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Bevois Valley (/ ˈ b iː v ɪ s / BEE-vis) is an inner city area of Southampton, England, within Bevois Electoral Ward, and includes areas called Bevois Town and Bevois Mount.The area lies south of and adjoins Portswood and is within easy walking distance of the city centre.
English: Sea and land outline of the centre of the south coast of England from Portland Bill to Selsey Bill: principally Weymouth and Bournemouth Bays with the Isle of Wight cut off from the mainland by the Solent. The mainland has 8 main harbours/inlets: Weymouth, Poole (in which Brownsea Island is shown), Christchurch, Lymington, the Beaulieu ...
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls. Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud , UK , invented the lawnmower , lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on them.
Non-regulation "mini-duckpin" bowling is played in additional locations. [2] Duckpin bowling has rules [3] similar to ten-pin bowling. In a 10-frame game, bowlers try to knock down pins in the fewest rolls per frame. Bowlers have three balls per frame, instead of two as in ten-pin bowling, to knock over a set of 10 pins.
Map of Hampshire, UK with Southampton highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 155%: Date: 27 February 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Coastline and administrative boundary data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot ...
The park hosts a miniature railway run and operated by Southampton and District Society of Model Engineers. The track opened in 1962 after Southampton City Council allowed for a raised track for 3.5-inch (8.9 cm) and 5-inch (13 cm) miniatures in the area known as Cobden Meadows. [12]
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The Southampton Central Parks are a set of five parks, which collectively make a central public park, in the heart of the city of Southampton. Created between 1854 and 1866, they have gained Grade II* listed status, as well as being part of the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The parks are legally Common Land. [1]