List of Kent County Cricket Club grounds information
The St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury was unusual in having a tree of over 100 feet in height (visible on the left of the picture) within the boundary of the playing area. The tree blew down in a storm in 2005, and a much smaller replacement was planted at the same spot later that year.
This is a list of grounds that Kent County Cricket Club have used since the formation of the first county club in August 1842. The club has used 29 grounds for first-class, List A and Twenty20 home matches. Prior to the formation of the first county club an informal county team had appeared in first-class matches from 1773 and cricket had been played in the county from at least the 17th century.[1][2]
White Hart Field in Bromley played host to the club's first home fixture in first-class cricket against an All England cricket team in 1842.[1] The county was based at the Beverley Ground in Canterbury until 1846 and Canterbury Cricket Week was first established at this ground.[3][4] From 1847 the base for the county moved to the St Lawrence Ground, also in Canterbury, and this ground was later established as the county's formal headquarters.[5] It is now the main ground for the county and hosts the majority of home matches, although it was typically only used for county cricket during Canterbury week until well into the 20th century.[6] The ground is famous for having had a tree, the St Lawrence Lime, on the playing area for most of its history.[7][8][9]
Unusually for a first-class county, Kent have played over 100 home fixtures at seven grounds and continued to play the majority of its matches away from the St Lawrence Ground until well into the 20th century.[6][10] The only out-ground still in use as of 2024 is the County Cricket Ground, Beckenham.
The 29 grounds that Kent have used for home matches since 1842 are listed below along with The Oval in London, the home ground of Surrey County Cricket Club, which was used for two home matches by Kent.
^ abA brief history of Kent, CricInfo. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
^Early Cricket (Pre 1799), International Cricket Council. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
^Jones KH (1934) An early relic of Kent Cricket, in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol 48, pp.240–243. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
^Homer J (2015) Ye Olde Beverlie, St Stephen's Green in Canterbury Pubs. Stroud: Amberley Publishing Limited. (Available online. Retrieved 2017-12-01).
^Sweetinburgh S (2015) Kent Cricket and a Tudor Mansion, Canterbury Christchurch University, 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
^ abHignell A (2002) Rain Stops Play: Cricketing Climates, pp. 67–112. London: Abingdon. ISBN 0-7146-5173-7.
^The Kent County Club and the St Lawrence Ground, The Times, 1896-03-14, p.13.
^Kent County Cricket Club, The Times, 1897-03-25, p.11.
^Moseling M, Quarrington T (2013) A Half-Forgotten Triumph: The story of Kent's County Championship title of 1913, p.35. Cheltenham: SportsBooks. ISBN 978-1-907524-40-0.
^Hignell, op. cit., pp. 65–66.
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