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Kensington

Kensington is an area of in the , around 2.9 miles west of . The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Design Museum and Leighton House Museum.

Museum
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The in Kensington, London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award.

Museum
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The is an art museum and historic house in the area of the in west London. The building was the home of painter Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, who commissioned the…

Park
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is an area of Kensington, on the western edge of , that lies within the and largely surrounds its namesake park, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Earls Court and West Kensington.

Suburb
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Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the in , bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of to the west, the sub-districts of to the east, to the south and Kensington to the northeast.

Suburb
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, formerly , is an area in the ancient parish of , in the , England, 3.4 miles west of .

Suburb
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is a district at the West End of in the . Historically it settled on part of the scattered village of .

Kensington

Latitude
51.499° or 51° 29′ 56″ north
Longitude
-0.19912° or 0° 11′ 57″ west
Population
64,700
Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)
Open location code
9C3XFRX2+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27467182
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2645801
Wiki­data ID
Q288781
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kensington” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kensington”
  • Arabic: “كنزينغتون”
  • Armenian: “Քենսինգթոն”
  • Asturian: “Kensington”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kensinqton”
  • Basque: “Kensington”
  • Bavarian: “Kensington”
  • Belarusian: “Кенсінгтан”
  • Belarusian: “Кенсінгтон”
  • Belarusian: “Кенсынгтан”
  • Bulgarian: “Кенсингтън”
  • Catalan: “Kensington i Chelsea”
  • Catalan: “Kensington”
  • Chinese: “肯星頓”
  • Chinese: “肯辛頓”
  • Chinese: “肯辛頓特”
  • Chinese: “肯辛顿”
  • Chinese: “肯辛顿特”
  • Czech: “Kensington”
  • Danish: “Kensington”
  • Dutch: “Kensington”
  • Esperanto: “Kensington”
  • Finnish: “Kensington”
  • French: “Kensington”
  • Galician: “Kensington”
  • Georgian: “კენსინგტონი”
  • German: “Kensington”
  • Greek: “Κένσινγκτον”
  • Hebrew: “קנזינגטון”
  • Hindi: “केंसिंग्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Kensington”
  • Indonesian: “Kensington”
  • Irish: “Kensington”
  • Italian: “Kensington”
  • Japanese: “ケンジントン”
  • Kashmiri: “کینسِنٛگٹن”
  • Korean: “켄징턴”
  • Latin: “Kensingtonia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kensington”
  • Macedonian: “Кензинтгон”
  • Malagasy: “Kensington”
  • Malay: “Kensington”
  • Maltese: “Kensington”
  • Moksha: “Кэнсингтон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kensington”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kensington”
  • Norwegian: “Kensington”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kensington”
  • Persian: “کنزینگتون”
  • Polish: “Kensington”
  • Portuguese: “Kensington”
  • Romanian: “Kensington”
  • Russian: “Кенсингтон”
  • Scots: “Kensington”
  • Slovak: “Kensington”
  • Slovenian: “Kensington”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کنزینقتون”
  • Spanish: “Kensington”
  • Swedish: “Kensington”
  • Tajik: “Кенсингтон”
  • Tatar: “Кенсиңтон”
  • Turkish: “Kensington”
  • Ukrainian: “Кенсінгтон”
  • Urdu: “کنزنگٹن”
  • Urdu: “کینزنگٹن”
  • Vietnamese: “Kensington”
  • Welsh: “Kensington”
  • Western Frisian: “Kensington”
  • Yiddish: “קענזינגטאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “肯星頓”

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