Canterbury Cricket

The St Lawrence Ground on Old Dover road is the Canterbury Cricket Ground and home to the Kent Cricket team the largest of three grounds used by the team.

It is one of the oldest grounds that top class cricket is played on. It has a capacity of 15,000 spectators with seating for 5500 people with over half of those seat available to non members.

Here is a link to a map to help you find it.

So if you fancy picking up a game of cricket while you visit Canterbury, you may be in luck. Here is a link to the upcoming fixtures due at the ground.

There can be nothing more British than sitting pitchside of a cricket match with a pint of beer as you watch this game of pure strategic thinking play out before you.

Its is said that the greatest English Victories on the battlefields of history were won and lost on the cricket pitches of Eton. As in days gone by great military generals learnt the art of forward strategic thinking while playing this game at school.

Day and Night Matches

The Famous Canterbury Cricket Ground LimeTree

The tree, more than 200 years old, had been a landmark at the St Lawrence Ground since it opened. If the ball hit the tree it was counted as four runs. The ground itself was unusually actually built around the tree.

A new tree has now been planted on the ground, although it is currently less than 6ft high.

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