Mote Park is a 440-acre (1.8 km2) multi-use public park in Maidstone, Kent. Previously a country estate it was converted to landscaped park land at the end of the 18th century before becoming a municipal park. It includes the former stately home Mote House together with a miniature railway and a boating lake. A ground of the same name within the park has also been used as a first-class cricket ground by Kent County Cricket Club.
Mote Park lake with Mote House in the distance
Volunteers Pavilion Doric Temple, erected in the early nineteenth century
The nineteenth-century boathouse located on the north side of the lake in Mote Park
Mote House from the southwest
Ridable miniature railway
A ridable miniature railway is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives.
Delicias station in Madrid, Spain
This is a Small Locomotive. Thought to be the oldest surviving 10¼" 'Garden Railway' Locomotive in the world. Built in Birmingham, 1900, by Grimshaw for Capt. Holder's Pitmaston Moor Green Railway.
Miniature railway ride in West Ryde, Australia in 2007
Wells and Walsingham Light Railway