The History of Hythe Cricket & Squash Club

History of the Club

Hythe Cricket Ground in about 1922

Cricket has been played at the Grove from the founding of Hythe Cricket Club in 1856/7, though details of these early years are sketchy. There was a strong connection with the School of Musketry, and many Army officers and NCO's have played for the Club over the years.

In the 1890s, the freehold of the Ground, then known as Lodge Field, passed into the hands of the Deedes family, who sold the Ground in 1920 to George Lawrie Mackeson of the brewing family.