Penshurst Park

Penshurst Park Cricket Ground
Location Penshurst Place, Penshurst, near Tonbridge, Kent
Home club Edwin Stead's XI
Penshurst Park CC
County club Kent (pre-county club)
Establishment by 1724

Penshurst Park Cricket Ground aka the Earl of Leicester's Park at Penshurst, Kent is one of the oldest cricket venues in England. Part of the Penshurst Place estate, it is first recorded re a match in 1724.

18th-century cricket

Penshurst Park is known to have been the venue for four first-class matches played from 1724 to 1729. It is first recorded in 1724 for a match involving a combined Penshurst, Tonbridge and Wadhurst team against Dartford.[1] and then in the 1728 English cricket season when it was used for two matches organised by Kent patron Edwin Stead against teams led by the 2nd Duke of Richmond and Sir William Gage. In 1729, Stead used it as his home venue for another match against Sir William Gage's XI.[2]

Minor cricket

CricketArchive has recorded a number of matches played by a Penshurst club in the mid-19th century and one played by the modern Penshurst Park club against a visiting Toronto team.[3]

Today

The ground is now the home venue of Penshurst Park Cricket Club.[4]

References

  1. McCann, p. 18.
  2. "Classification of cricket matches from 1697 to 1825". Stumpsite. 2007. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012.
  3. "Matches Played on Penshurst Park". CricketArchive. 2012.
  4. "Penshurst Park Cricket Club". ImagineCricket. Retrieved 13 July 2012.

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Coordinates: 51°10′29″N 0°11′02″E / 51.1747°N 0.1838°E / 51.1747; 0.1838


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