Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/King's Meadow, Nottingham
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(non-admin closure) Captain Galaxy (talk) 19:14, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
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King's Meadow, Nottingham
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Obscure venue that only hosted a couple of matches of minor historical interest. Only source given is a statistical site, and that only holds details of three matches ever played there. Seems little scope for expansion beyond current small stub. Jellyman (talk) 17:11, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions. Jellyman (talk) 17:11, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- Redirect to King's Meadow Campus which is part of Nottingham University. I have no idea if they're the same place or not, but it's an entirely sensible redirect. I'll remove the link from the nav box and we'll see what links remain to the current article and deal with them. If this wasn't up for AfD I would do the redirect right now, it seems that obvious to me. Blue Square Thing (talk) 18:33, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
Merge into King's Meadow Campus given the historical interest mentioned by Jellyman.(see below) The article surprised me when I read it just now because I once visited the ordnance factory. I see it has gone now so the campus is the obvious destination for the article. Without actually knowing, I would think there has only been one King's Meadow but it must have covered a massive area. No Great Shaker (talk) 21:09, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- A look at some old OS maps suggests that there's little or no evidence that they were in the same place. There is a Meadows cricket ground marked much closer to the city than the campus, but there's nothing to say that this was on the same site as this place - which might just have been a handily roped off area of pasture or something. I'm not sure there's anything to merge. Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:00, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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- True, the article itself just says minor or local games only. I can't access the source but I believe it's a statistical site so probably not much there, either. I'll go with you on redirect, then. All I can remember of my visit (a business trip) is the factory itself. I don't know if it was near the university. No Great Shaker (talk) 11:30, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
- Delete. Judging by this, the cricket ground and the current university campus are not the same place. StickyWicket (talk) 21:44, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
- The map in this forum shows where the factory was and, using St Wilfred's Church as a reference point, you can see on this Google map that the factory site is now the retail park just to the east of the university. So, if the article is correct that the old cricket ground was in the land taken over by the factory in 1951, then it was very near to if not actually on the campus site.
- It looks as if the Meadows Cricket Ground in the Malcolm Fox article was a mile or so north-east of the factory site. Queen's Walk still exists as a footpath alongside the railway line. Kirkwhite Street seems to have been a long road that, according to this lady, was demolished and redeveloped. There is a Kirkwhite Walk which if extended westwards would meet Queen's Walk just where the Queen's Drive Recreation Ground is, so that could well be the surviving green open space which Mr Fox mentions. No Great Shaker (talk) 04:44, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
- Redirect - irrespective of whether the former cricket ground is on the same site as the modern campus, the title is a plausible redirect -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:24, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
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