East Bowling is an area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England located to the south of Bradford city centre.
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10 Facts About East Bowling
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East Bowling is a part of the Bowling and Barkerend ward.
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Cudworth could find scant evidence that the "three open field" system had ever been used in East Bowling, though it was a major feature of Bradford, Manningham and Horton.
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In 1847 East Bowling became one of the 8 wards of the newly created Municipal Borough of Bradford.
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East Bowling delegated management of the mines to his energetic land agent, Isaac Wells.
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East Bowling subsequently leased mining rights on other parts of his estate.
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The Ironworks thus became the dominant landowner in East Bowling - owning nearly all of it - and the major landowner in West Bowling.
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Later that year the East Bowling Ironworks opened an extensive set of standard gauge private lines and sidings with a junction to the "Avoiding Line" at East Bowling Bridge station, making the works much less dependent on its tramways and canal transport.
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From about 1850 reserves in East Bowling were becoming exhausted and some landholdings were sold off.
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East Bowling Cemetery is situated to the south on the ring road.
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