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Bourne Park (other)
Bourne Park may refer to: * Bourne Park (football ground), former home of Sittingbourne F.C. * Bourne Park House, a country house on Bourne Park Road, between Bishopsbourne and Bridge near Canterbury in Kent * Bourne Paddock Bourne Paddock was a cricket ground at Bourne Park House, the seat of Sir Horatio Mann, at Bishopsbourne around south-east of Canterbury in the English county of Kent. It was a venue for first-class cricket matches from 1766 to 1790. The groun ..., a cricket ground in the grounds of Bourne Park House * Bourne Park Reed Beds, a Local Nature Reserve on the southern outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk {{disambiguation ...
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Bourne Park (football Ground)
Sittingbourne Football Club are an English football club based in Sittingbourne in Kent. Established in 1886, they were founder members of the Kent League. They have reached the 2nd round of the FA Cup twice in their history. They are currently playing in the . History Although an earlier Sittingbourne United club had been playing since as early as 1881, Sittingbourne F.C. traces its lineage to 1886 when the club was reorganised under the new name. The club moved to a field behind the Bull pub in 1892, where they were to remain for nearly 100 years. Senior status was acquired in 1893, and the following year the club joined the first incarnation of the Kent League, before withdrawing to enter the South Eastern League in 1905. After World War I the club rejoined the Kent League, where they played until 1927 when they joined the Southern League. In 1930 they left this league and it is unclear where they played next. After World War II the Brickies rejoined the Kent League onc ...
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Bourne Park House
Bourne Park House is a Queen Anne style country house on Bourne Park Road, between Bishopsbourne and Bridge near Canterbury in Kent. Built in 1701, it has been listed Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England since 1954. An 18th century red brick ice house and a bridge that spans the Nailbourne that feeds the lake in the grounds of Bourne Park are both Grade II listed. Originally known as Bourne Place, the present house was commissioned by Elizabeth Aucher, the widow of Sir Anthony Aucher. Built in place of an existing building belonging to the Bourne family, it is large red brick rectangular mansion of two storeys with attic and basement and a hipped tile roof. There is a 13 bay frontage, of which the central 5 bays project surmounted by a pediment containing a Venetian window. The interior, altered in 1848, contains a good 18th-century staircase, panelling and ceilings. The house is surrounded by parkland of which all but the adjacent 3.6 hectares (9 acres) ...
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Bourne Paddock
Bourne Paddock was a cricket ground at Bourne Park House, the seat of Sir Horatio Mann, at Bishopsbourne around south-east of Canterbury in the English county of Kent. It was a venue for first-class cricket matches from 1766 to 1790. The ground was within the grounds of Bourne Park House. Archaeological surveys have shown that it was built on an area which was settled during the Iron Age and Roman periods.Wallace L ''et al.'' (2014) Archaeological Investigations of a Major Building, probably Roman, and related landscape features at Bourne Park, Bishopsbourne, 2011–12, ''Archaeologia Cantiana'', Vol. 134, pp.187–203.Available online Retrieved 2017-12-17).Wallace L, Johnson P, Strutt K (2013) ''Bourne Park (Bishopsbourne) Geophysical Survey 2012 Results'', Cambridge University.Available online Retrieved 2017-12-17). A modern cricket pavilion and a large iron roller used to roll the cricket pitch remain at the site, but the ground is no longer in use.Johnson P, Wallace L (2012) ...
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