Mount Field (cricket ground)
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Location | Ospringe, Faversham, Kent | ||
Coordinates | 51°18′40″N 0°52′44″E / 51.311°N 0.879°E | ||
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As of 9 December 2017 Source: CricketArchive |
Mount Field was a
Cricketing history
The ground was used to host one first-class match in 1876. Kent County Cricket Club lost to Hampshire County Cricket Club by an innings and six runs in August in a fixture which immediately followed the club's Canterbury Cricket Week festival.[1] It was used by Faversham Cricket Club in the 19th century,[2][3][4] but only one other scorecard of a match is known to exist, an 1864 fixture between the Gentlemen of Kent and the Gentlemen of Sussex,[5] and was the home ground used by the cricket team from the local gunpowder works in the 1920s.[6]
The ground was located between the
The Mount
The Mount is a large 18th-century house which is situated in the south-western corner of the remaining playing field at the eastern edge of Ospringe.
Gosselin died in 1859
Florence remarried in 1915
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- ^ a b Shepherd Neame Brewery, Neame Family. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
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- ^ Other matches played on Mount Field, Faversham, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ^ Milton H (1979) Kent cricket grounds, in The Cricket Statistician, no.28, December 1979, pp.2–10.
- ^ Ordnance Survey Map of Kent, XXXIV.SW. Revised: 1896. Published: 1898.
- ^ Explorer Map 163 – Sittingbourne & Faversham, Isle of Sheppey, Ordnance Survey, 2015-09-16.
- ^ Mount Field, Faversham, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- Swale Borough Council. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ^ Swale Borough Council, 2004-09-09. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
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- ^ Two veterans, The Times, issue 23333, 1859-06-15, p.10.
- ^ Philippart J (1820) The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book: Containing the Services and Progress of Promotion of the Generals, Lieutenant-generals, Major-generals, Colonels, Lieutenant-colonels, and Majors of the Army, According to Seniority: with Details of the Principal Military Events of the Last Century, Volume 3, pp.209–210. London: AJ Valpy. (Available online. Retrieved 2017-12-09).
- ^ Gosselin, Gerard, British Generals of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ^ Deaths, The Times, issue 23332, 1859-06-14, p.1.
- ^ Marriages, The Times, issue 25597, 1866-09-07, p.1.
- ^ Brewery history, Shepherd Neame Brewery. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ^ Deaths, The Times, issue 40102, 1913-01-07, p.1.
- ^ Arthur Neame 1871–1916, Faded Genes. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ^ The man who put the Neame in Shepherd Neame, Beer Today, 2014-11-28. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ^ Marriages, The Times, issue 40962, 1915-09-17, p.1.
- ^ Creswick P, Pond GS, Ashton PH (1915) Kent's Care for the Wounded. London: Hodder and Stoughton. (Available online. Retrieved 2017-12-09).
- ^ Faversham in the First World War - Part 1, Faversham Enterprise Partnership. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ^ Children's Home, Faversham, Kent, Children's Homes. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
- ^ Historic England. "The Mount (1343843)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2017-12-09.