| Ground Name: | Farndon Park |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Location: | Clive, New Zealand |
| Establishment: | 1892 (first recorded match) |
| Club1: | Hawke's Bay |
| Year1: | 1892–1896 |
| Date: | 2 November |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/21/1446.html Ground profile |
Farndon Park, also known as Farndon Park Domain, is a public park in Clive, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. It hosts many sporting events, including swimming, tennis, rugby union, and rowing on the adjacent Clive River.[1] It was formerly also a cricket ground.
The eight-hectare (20-acre) reserve was purchased by the colonial government in 1870 from its Māori owners with the intention of developing it as a botanical gardens.[2]
Hawke's Bay played four first-class cricket matches at Farndon Park. Three of those came in 1892, against Taranaki, Wellington and Otago. The fourth came four years later when the touring Queensland side visited.[3] The Otago Witness reporter in 1892 described the ground as "a perfect likeness of a good English private ground".[4] Cricket is no longer played at the park.
Farndon Park was the venue for the first New Zealand Tennis Championships, held in December 1885.[5]