We will be running our popular CAMRA real ale tent at Kent’s St Lawrence Cricket Ground, Old Dover Road, Canterbury CT1 3NZ during cricket festival week, from Friday June 19 until Monday June 22. The match is Kent v Middlesex in the Men’s County Championship. We are usually at the Nackington Road end, under floodlight 3.

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Please note:

• The CAMRA tent is for CAMRA members and their guests only – it’s not open to the general public
• Admission to the CAMRA tent is free. CAMRA members (show your membership card, please) need to sign themselves and their guests into the visitor’s book - as many guests as you like, within reasonable limits!
• However, you can join CAMRA at the tent. We also offer cricket-tent-only membership at a reduced price
• Admission to the CAMRA tent is free, but of course you will need to pay to get into the cricket ground (unless you are already a Kent CCC member). See the KCCC website for admission details. It could be cheaper to get advance tickets or ticket bundles.
• From the 19th to the 22nd, the CAMRA tent will be open from 10am each day until after close of play (about 7pm). The cricket starts at 11am. Keep an eye on cricket news to check that the match hasn’t ended early. Remember that County Championship matches may not last for 4 days. The CAMRA tent will not open on the fourth day if the match has already ended.
• We have our own private seating at the front of our tent, overlooking the pitch. If all the seats are taken, you are welcome to carry your drinks to other seating areas, but please ask us for plastic glasses if you are moving away from the tent.
• We serve cask beer and cider, wine, soft drinks, tea and coffee. At our very successful 2025 tent we had 30 different beers and cider from 15 producers, mostly from Kent, but we only have 4 beers on at any one time to maintain quality. Usually a bitter, a best bitter, a golden ale and a dark ale. As one beer runs out, a new one is put on. This can happen very fast!
• We are not allowed to sell food (except for crisps etc), but there are plenty of food outlets on the cricket ground.
• We take cash or card payments. Beer is about £4 to £4.50 a pint. But note that the other outlets on the cricket ground are cashless.
• All the surplus money from the tent is donated to two charities. This year the charities are Cancer Research UK and Alzheimer’s Research UK. We welcome donations of beer and cider from brewers and cider producers, and any offers of sponsorship are welcome.
• Accessibility: if you have mobility needs, ask a steward the best way to our tent. Our tent is step free but on a bank, if you need assistance just wave to our entrance table. There is a special wheelchair hardstanding area next to the tent, and the Leslie Ames Stand next to us has disabled toilets.

For any questions, contact Gill Keay. Email moc.tenretnitb@yaekyrregdnallig, or ring 01227 463478 or 07976 431886 (text messages are usually best as I never seem to hear the phone).

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Our bar, run jointly by Canterbury Branch and Swale Branch, is a street bar during the colourful, free entry Faversham Hop Festival.

The festival features food and drink, stalls, music and camping - see the festival website for details. Our bar has cask beers from 7 Kentish brewers, and cask cider from 2 Kentish cider producers.

We open from 10.00am to 5.30pm on both days.

The map shows our usual location on East Street (what3words: ///dugouts.toffee.nuggets) but this has to be confirmed by the hop festival, so check here nearer the date.

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