Clifton Villa Estate
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| Location | Cliftonville, Margate, Kent | ||
| Coordinates | 51°23′26″N 1°23′33″E / 51.3906°N 1.3925°E (approx.) | ||
| Establishment | 1864 (first recorded match) | ||
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| As of 10 August 2010 Source: CricketArchive | |||
Clifton Villa Estate, also known as New Cricket Ground,[1] was a cricket ground in the Cliftonville area of the town of Margate in Kent. The only first-class cricket match played on the ground was between Kent County Cricket Club and Sussex County Cricket Club in July 1864.[2] The ground was leased from the Cliftonville Estate from July to October to be used for cricket,[3] although only one other match is known to have taken place on the ground. This took place in the same year and was a non-first-class match between a Margate team and the United All-England Eleven.[4]
The ground was built on farmland on the eastern outskirts of Margate. It was only in existence for a short time with the land being built on soon after 1864 as Margate and Cliftonville experienced a rapid expansion following the arrival of the railway in the area.[3][5] It was probably located in the area of the modern Dalby Square in Cliftonville.[6] This was originally known as Ethelbert Square and was developed as a residential area from 1865.[7][8][9][10] The large Cliftonville Hotel was built in 1868 on what was described as "an island site in the middle of corn fields"[11] to become Margate's "first grand hotel".[8] Grass tennis courts and a croquet lawn were laid out in Dalby Square Gardens from at least 1885 and today the area is laid out as ornamental gardens.[7][12]
Kent teams had played first-class matches on Dandelion Paddock in the Garlinge area to the west of Margate in the 1790s before the establishment of the first county club in 1842.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ Grounds Records in Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017, pp.210–211. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
- ^ First-Class matches played on Clifton Villa Estate, Margate, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
- ^ a b Milton H (2020) Kent County Cricket Grounds, p.214. Woking: Pitch Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78531-661-6
- ^ Other matches played on Clifton Villa Estate, Margate, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
- ^ 3 Historical development, Proposed Ethelbert Road and Athelstan Road Conservation Area, Thanet District Council, 2014. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
- ^ Clifton Villa Estate, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
- ^ a b Foad S (2010) Dalby Square, Cliftonville, Newsletter, Issue 361, winter 2010, pp.4–5, Margate Civic Society. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
- ^ a b Margate's Seaside Heritage Archived 2017-08-12 at the Wayback Machine, English Heritage. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
- ^ Dalby Square Townscape Heritage Initiative, Thanet District Council. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
- ^ Margate, The Times, issue 25594, 1866-09-04, p.14.
- ^ Quoted in Thanet District Council Op. cit..
- ^ Dalby Square, Margate, Thanet, The Kent Compendium of Historic Parks and Gardens for Thanet District, June 2013. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
- ^ Dandelion Paddock, Margate, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-08.