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Mote Park is a 440-acre 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.
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
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted,, known as Sir Marcus Samuel between 1898 and 1921 and subsequently as Lord Bearsted until 1925, was a Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport
Mote Park
…exotic plants and a walled kitchen garden including orangeries, vineries and peach houses, staffed by 25 gardeners. In 1895 the estate was sold to Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted. The estate had included the Mote Cricket Club since 1857, and Viscount Bearsted expanded the facility, building a pavilion between 1908 and 1910. (see…
Sir Marcus Samuel, Bt, ca. 1902
Mote House, Mote Park
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