East Sussex Cricket Ground

East Sussex Cricket Ground was a cricket ground in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.

The ground was located at the site of a racecourse which had moved after 1826 from the Bulverhythe Salts.

It was during its time regarded as one of the finest racecourses in the United Kingdom.

[1] The first recorded match on the ground was in 1857, when Sussex played the Marylebone Cricket Club in the grounds only first-class match.

[2] The final recorded match held on the ground came in 1894 when the South Saxons played the Gentlemen of the Netherlands,[3] a Netherlands side which contained the famous Carst Posthuma.