Park summary
Mote Park's wide open spaces, parkland and numerous facilities
offer something for everyone, including sports, fishing,
scenic walks and children's play areas.
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| Park facilities |
| Visitor centre |
No |
Dogs allowed |
Yes |
Viewpoints |
Yes |
| Refreshments |
Yes |
Dog waste bins |
Yes |
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| Toilets |
Yes |
Kindling or Log shop |
No |
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| Park accessibility |
| This park and open space has
well surfaced routes suitable for visitors with pushchairs and/or
wheelchairs, and has no width restricting features, such as stiles
or non RADAR kissing gates. |
| Disabled
parking |
Yes |
Number of disabled bays |
12 |
Wheelchair/Pushchair access |
Yes |
| Disabled toilet |
Yes |
Rest point |
Yes |
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| Radar NKS Key required |
No |
Electric scooter hire |
No |
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About the park
Comprising 450 acres of historic parkland, Mote Park’s wide
variety of facilities, attractions and scenery make it an excellent
place to go for a day out, and its location means that it’s easily
accessible from Maidstone town centre. Formerly a country estate,
the history of Mote Park dates back to the 13th Century. During the
late 1700s the grounds were considerably improved, and the mansion
that still stands overlooking the lake was built. At its peak in
the late 1800s, the estate featured extensive gardens containing
exotic plants, orangeries, vineries and peach houses maintained by
25 gardening staff.
Today, despite the loss of the formal gardens, the park can
boast an impressive array of more modern features, including a
cafeteria, BMX track, pitch and putt course, model railway and
children’s play area. Angling, sailing and model boating clubs
all use the main lake.and there are numerous football and
rugby pitches at the nearby Maidstone Leisure Centre.
For those seeking a more relaxed way to spend the day, the
extensive network of surfaced paths around the park provide
countless beautiful views across the parkland and its lakes. Thanks
to a recent £2.5m development scheme, from 2011 the park has
benefitted from the planting of 140 new parkland trees, while local
historic views were restored, and the ecology of the park
safeguarded for the future.
Additional park information
In summer, the park’s open grassland becomes the site of a
variety of different events, from funfairs to the annual
Maidstone Cultural Mela.