Cricket Pavilion, Linden Park Cricket Club
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Cricket Pavilion, Linden Park Cricket Club
Image: © N Chadwick Taken: 5 Dec 2009
Although cricket was played on this site informally from the mid-eighteenth century, its status as an official ground dates from 1839 when the newly formed Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club were given permission to use and improve it. It was enlarged in 1859 and 1875. County matches were played here from 1845 to 1880, but they ceased due to the poor condition of the pitch which was regularly trampled by the public and grazing animals. On either side of the pavilion are flowering cherries planted in June 1953 to commemorate Elizabeth II's coronation. (Tunbridge Wells Conservators)
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Image Location
Latitude
51.128941
Longitude
0.251913