Cheriton Road is a complex of sports grounds at Folkestone in the English county of Kent.
The club folded in 1991 and Folkestone Invicta moved into the ground, having previously played in Hythe.
[7] The sports park was fully opened in 2013 following a £6.8 million redevelopment of the cricket and hockey facilities at the ground which began in 2010.
[8][9][10][11] The redevelopment was funded by a donation from the Roger De Haan Charitable Foundation on land owned by Folkestone and Hythe District Council.
[9] The complex has been leased by the council, who own the land, for 125 years to an independent charitable trust which manages the site.
[3] The ground was moved to its current site immediately to the east of the football stadium in 1925 and a cricket week was established during September of the same year with the first first-class matches on the ground being a Gentlemen v Players fixture and a match between AER Gilligan's XI and LH Tennyson's XI.
The view from the raised enclosure on the south side ... across the golf links to Caeser's Camp and the bold outline of the Downs is a glorious one and lends a great air of spaciousness to the ground, which is itself on the grand scale... – The Times, 8 September 1925[21] A new pavilion was built and the following year saw an England XI play the touring Australians as well as the first match featuring a Kent County Cricket Club side - the county playing MCC on the ground.
A total of 118 first-class matches have been held on the ground, 85 featuring Kent as the home side.
[29] Fast bowler Fred Ridgway took four wickets in four balls on the ground for Kent against Derbyshire in 1951.
This is the oldest hockey festival of its kind in the UK and is over 100 years old[14] and has included international matches in its programme.