Cobham Park (cricket ground)

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Cobham Park
Cobham Park (cricket ground)
Interactive map of Cobham Park
Location Cobham, Kent
Coordinates 51°23′38″N0°25′05″E / 51.394°N 0.418°E / 51.394; 0.418
Establishment1792
Last used1879

Cobham Park near Cobham, Kent and located within the grounds of the Cobham Hall estate, was used a cricket ground. It was used as the venue for an inter-county match between Kent and Hampshire. [1]

The ground was used for cricket matches by Cobham Cricket Club between the 1850s and 1870s, including a number of matches against the Royal Engineers Cricket Club. [2] The Hall was owned by the Earls of Darnley and a number of the family were keen cricketers. Ivo Bligh, who became the 8th Earl in 1900, captained the first English tour of Australia in 1882–83, recapturing The Ashes. [3]

The hall was last used for cricket in 1951. [2]

References

  1. ↑ matches played on Cobham Park, Cobham Archived 27 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine , CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  2. 1 2 Other matches played on Cobham Park, Cobham Archived 31 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine , CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  3. ↑ Tennant I (2017) Ivo on Ivo, The Cricketer, vol 15, no.2, November 2017, pp.59–61.
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