# List of Kent County Cricket Club grounds

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.
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. The county was based at the Beverley Ground in Canterbury until 1846 and Canterbury Cricket Week was first established at this ground. 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. 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. The ground is famous for having had a tree, the St Lawrence Lime, on the playing area for most of its history.
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. 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.

## Grounds

Below is a list of grounds used by Kent County Cricket Club in first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. Grounds are listed in order of their first use by the county. The count only includes matches where Kent were the home team. Many grounds have been used by other teams, including for international matches.
    As of 30 September 2024
| Name | Location | FC | LA | T20 | First match | Last match |
| White Hart Field | Bromley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 August 1842 v England | |
| Beverley Ground | Canterbury | 7 | 0 | 0 | 13 July 1843 v Sussex | 3 August 1846 v England |
| Hemsted Park | Benenden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 August 1843 v England | |
| Higher Common Ground | Tunbridge Wells | 28 | 0 | 0 | 31 July 1845 v Sussex | 25 August 1884 v Somerset |
| Preston Hall Ground | Aylesford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23 July 1846 v Surrey | 15 July 1847 v Surrey |
| St Lawrence Ground | Canterbury | 609 | 376 | 96 | 2 August 1847 v England | 17 September 2024 v Notts |
| Bat and Ball Ground | Gravesend | 142 | 0 | 0 | 21 June 1849 v All England Eleven | 26 May 1971 v Pakistanis |
| School Field | Cranbrook | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 July 1850 v All England Eleven | 24 July 1851 v All England Eleven |
| Mote Park | Maidstone | 218 | 53 | 2 | 23 June 1859 v MCC | 5 June 2005 v Derbyshire |
| New Brompton Cricket Ground | Chatham | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 June 1862 v Cambridgeshire | |
| Swifts Park | Cranbrook | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 July 1862 v Yorkshire | 23 July 1863 v Nottinghamshire |
| Sandgate Plain | Folkestone | 2 | 0 | 0 | 31 July 1862 v Sussex | 30 July 1863 v Sussex |
| Crystal Palace Park | Crystal Palace | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21 July 1864 v Nottinghamshire | 25 August 1870 v Sussex |
| New Cricket Ground | Margate | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 July 1864 v Sussex | |
| B. M. Close's Ground | Southborough | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 July 1867 v Hampshire | |
| Angel Ground | Tonbridge | 106 | 0 | 0 | 22 July 1869 v Nottinghamshire | 7 June 1939 v Glamorgan |
| Private Banks Sports Ground | Catford | 38 | 0 | 0 | 31 May 1875 v Sussex | 29 June 1921 v Nottinghamshire |
| Mount Field | Faversham | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 August 1876 v Hampshire | |
| Old County Ground | West Malling | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 June 1878 v Nottinghamshire | 3 July 1890 v Sussex |
| Foxgrove Road | Beckenham | 14 | 0 | 0 | 22 July 1886 v Surrey | 3 August 1905 v Surrey |
| The Rectory Field | Blackheath | 84 | 3 | 0 | 26 May 1887 v Gloucestershire | 3 June 1972 v Surrey |
| Nevill Ground | Tunbridge Wells | 189 | 27 | 6 | 15 July 1901 v Lancashire | 17 June 2019 v Notts |
| Crabble Athletic Ground | Dover | 106 | 4 | 0 | 11 July 1907 v Gloucestershire | 21 July 1976 v Derbyshire |
| Garrison 1 Cricket Ground | Chatham | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 June 1926 v Derbyshire | 14 May 1927 v Northamptonshire |
| Cheriton Road | Folkestone | 85 | 23 | 0 | 8 September 1926 v MCC | 1 July 1995 v Cambridge University |
| Garrison Ground 2 | Gillingham | 28 | 3 | 0 | 5 May 1937 v Worcestershire | 6 August 1972 v Leicestershire |
| The Kent County Cricket Ground | Beckenham | 8 | 19 | 23 | 9 June 1954 v Gloucestershire | 4 August 2024 v Middlesex |
| Hesketh Park | Dartford | 33 | 2 | 0 | 16 May 1956 v Essex | 8 August 1990 v Leicestershire |
| Midland Bank Sports Ground | Beckenham | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 May 1970 v Lancashire | |

### The Oval

Kent have used The Oval, the home ground of Surrey County Cricket Club, for "home" matches on two occasions. The quarter-final of the 1981 Benson & Hedges Cup against Warwickshire was scheduled to be played on the St Lawrence Ground but, following heavy rain, the ground was deemed unplayable. Play was impossible on the first two days allocated for the fixture and an inspection on the third day also ruled out play and the match was switched to use The Oval at short notice.
The second Kent "home" match on the ground was a 2010 Twenty20 Cup fixture against Essex which Kent chose to play on the ground in an attempt to increase attendance and, as a result, income. The experiment was not repeated.