&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:The_Mote_cricket_club_-_geograph.org.uk_-_91849.jpg) The Mote in December 2005 | |||||||||
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| Location | Maidstone, Kent | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°16′05″N 0°32′10″E / 51.268°N 0.536°E | ||||||||
| Home club | The Mote Cricket Club | ||||||||
| Establishment | 1854 (first recorded match) | ||||||||
| Owner | The Mote Cricket Club | ||||||||
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| Mote Avenue End West Park Road End | |||||||||
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| As of 1 March 2018 Source: CricketArchive | |||||||||
Mote Park, also known as The Mote, is a cricket ground in Maidstone in the English county of Kent. It is inside the grounds of the Mote Park and is owned by The Mote Cricket Club.[1] The ground is also used by the Mote Squash Club and Maidstone rugby club.[2] It was used by Kent County Cricket Club as one of their out-grounds for county cricket matches. The club played over 200 first-class cricket matches on the ground between 1859 and 2005.[3]
The ground is located around 0.8 miles (1.3 km) south-east of the centre of Maidstone on the western fringe of Mote Park. The A229 road runs 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the east of the ground, Maidstone Leisure Centre is immediately to the south of the ground and Maidstone Grammar School just south-west of the site.[4] Originally the ground was separated from the urban area of Maidstone by farmland, but 20th century housing has been built up to the western edges of the site.[5]
- ^ The Mote CC - About Us Archived 2012-07-24 at archive.today, The Mote Cricket Club. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
- ^ Maidstone Rugby Club Archived 2010-01-27 at the Wayback Machine, Maidstone Rugby Club. Retrieved 2011-04-09
- ^ First-class matches played on Mote Park, Maidstone, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
- ^ Explorer Map 148 – Maidstone & the Medway Towns, Ordnance Survey, 2015-09-16.
- ^ Kent LXLII.7, Ordnance Survey map, revised 1907, published 1908.