Bowring Park is a public park in the

Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley The Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England. It covers several towns and villages, including Kirkby, Prescot, Huyton, Whiston, Halewood, Cronton and Stockbridge Village; Kirkby, Huyton, a ...

, near

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It is the oldest public park in Knowsley and includes the first municipal

golf course A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, tee box, a #Fairway and rough, fairway, the #Fairway and rough, rough and other hazard (golf), hazards, and ...

in England (established 1913). It was opened in 1907 and was a gift of Liverpool's first Lord Mayor William Benjamin Bowring (later first

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) in 1906 of the Roby Hall Estate. He was the senior partner in a shipping firm. His wife Isabel Maclean Bowring (née Jarvis) of

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, was sympathetic to the suffering and needy among the poor of Liverpool. Originally in size, it lost some to the

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. File:Bowring Park golf clubhouse - geograph.org.uk - 37192.jpg, Bowring Park golf clubhouse. File:Second green, Bowring Park golf course - geograph.org.uk - 37221.jpg, Bowring Park golf course, Bowring Park. File:National Wildflower Centre, Court Hey Park - geograph.org.uk - 40325.jpg, Bowring Park, National Wildflower Centre

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