Farndon Park

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Farndon Park
Ground information
Location Clive, New Zealand
Establishment1892 (first recorded match)
Team information
Hawke's Bay (1892–1896)
As of 2 November 2011
Source: Ground profile

Farndon Park, also known as Farndon Park Domain, is a public park in Clive, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. It hosts many sporting events, including swimming, tennis, rugby union, and rowing on the adjacent Clive River. [1] It was formerly also a cricket ground.

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History

The eight-hectare (20-acre) reserve was purchased by the colonial government in 1870 from its Māori owners with the intention of developing it as a botanical gardens. [2]

Hawke's Bay played four first-class cricket matches at Farndon Park. Three of those came in 1892, against Taranaki, Wellington and Otago. The fourth came four years later when the touring Queensland side visited. [3] The Otago Witness reporter in 1892 described the ground as "a perfect likeness of a good English private ground". [4] Cricket is no longer played at the park.

Farndon Park was the venue for the first New Zealand Tennis Championships, held in December 1885. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Farndon Park Domain". Hastings District Council. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  2. ↑ Farndon Heritage Trail, Hastings District Heritage Trails Society Inc., Hastings, 2018, pp. 17–18.
  3. ↑ "First-Class Matches played on Farndon Park, Clive". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
  4. ↑ "Notes by Slip". Otago Witness. No. 2027. 29 December 1892. p. 30.
  5. ↑ "Lawn Tennis". Lyttelton Times: 4. 5 January 1886.

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