Clifton Villa Estate

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Clifton Villa Estate
Ground information
Location Cliftonville, Margate, Kent
Coordinates 51°23′26″N1°23′33″E / 51.3906°N 1.3925°E / 51.3906; 1.3925 (approx.)
Establishment1864 (first recorded match)
Team information
Kent County Cricket Club (1864)
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]

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References

  1. ↑ Grounds Records in Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017, pp.210–211. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
  2. ↑ First-Class matches played on Clifton Villa Estate, Margate, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  3. 1 2 Milton H (2020) Kent County Cricket Grounds, p.214. Woking: Pitch Publishing. ISBN   978-1-78531-661-6
  4. ↑ Other matches played on Clifton Villa Estate, Margate, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  5. ↑ 3 Historical development, Proposed Ethelbert Road and Athelstan Road Conservation Area, Thanet District Council, 2014. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  6. ↑ Clifton Villa Estate, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  7. 1 2 Foad S (2010) Dalby Square, Cliftonville, Newsletter, Issue 361, winter 2010, pp.4–5, Margate Civic Society. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  8. 1 2 Margate's Seaside Heritage Archived 2017-08-12 at the Wayback Machine , English Heritage. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  9. ↑ Dalby Square Townscape Heritage Initiative, Thanet District Council. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  10. ↑ Margate, The Times , issue 25594, 1866-09-04, p.14.
  11. ↑ Quoted in Thanet District Council Op. cit. .
  12. ↑ Dalby Square, Margate, Thanet, The Kent Compendium of Historic Parks and Gardens for Thanet District, June 2013. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  13. ↑ Dandelion Paddock, Margate, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
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