Clifton Villa Estate

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]

Clifton Villa Estate
Ground information
LocationCliftonville, Margate, Kent
Coordinates51.3906°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

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
  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. 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. Foad S (2010) Dalby Square, Cliftonville, Newsletter, Issue 361, winter 2010, pp.4–5, Margate Civic Society. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  8. 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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