OVERVIEW

Mote Park is a 180 hectare multi-use public park in Maidstone, Kent. Good, undualting running trails abound as well as a tarmac cycle route through the centre. Beware that near the lakes the paths are liable to flooding. A lap of the park is about 4 miles with just the lake itself 1.33 miles. Parking is free and plentiful. Previously a country estate it was converted to landscaped park land at the end of the 18th century before becoming a municipal park. It includes the former stately home Mote House together with a miniature railway, pitch and putt golf course and a boating lake. The strange name is derived from 'moot' or 'mote' in Old English meaning "a place of assembly".