
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Silas Norton 1802-1892 with Thomas Selby and Lord Harris established Town Malling Cricket Ground 1827, which became the County Ground 1835 Lived here Recorded plaque organisation: West Malling Blue Plaques Group, Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council.
Silas Norton, along with Thomas Selby and William Harris, founded the Town Malling Cricket Ground in 1827, which later became the Kent County Ground in 1835, significantly contributing to cricket's development in Kent.
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