Mote Park (cricket ground)
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. The ground is also used by the Mote Squash Club and Maidstone rugby club. 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.
The Mote in December 2005
Kent v Surrey at Mote Park in 1973
Percy Chapman made the highest individual score at Mote Park in 1927
Andrew Symonds scored the only T20 century on the ground.
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
