Kennington
Kennington is a suburb of Ashford and civil parish in Kent, England. It is about a mile northeast of the town centre and north of the M20 motorway, and contains the 13th-century church, St Mary's.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 4,180 residents
- Description: suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, UK
- Also known as: “Kennington, Kent”
Photo: Chris Morley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Towers School and Sixth Form Centre and Conningbrook Lakes Country Park.
Towers School and Sixth Form Centre
School
Towers School and Sixth Form Centre is a secondary school in Ashford, Kent. The school was first established in 1967 and was named after the nearby towers standing at the entrance to Eastwell Park.
Conningbrook Lakes Country Park
Park
Photo: D-G-Seamon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Conningbrook Lakes Country Park is a 34.3-hectare nature reserve in Kennington, Ashford in Kent. It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. There are three lakes in these former gravel pits, and other habitats are ponds, a river, grassland and wet woodland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boughton Lees and Potters Corner.
Boughton Lees
Village
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Boughton Lees is a village in the civil parish of Boughton Aluph, Ashford District, Kent, England. It stands on the main Ashford-Faversham road, some 3.5 miles north of Ashford.
Potters Corner
Hamlet
Photo: D-G-Seamon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Potters Corner is a hamlet, which is situated 1½ miles west of Kennington.
Willesborough
Suburb
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Willesborough is a residential suburb, on the eastern side of Ashford, in the county of Kent, England. Willesborough is situated 2 miles south of Kennington.
Kennington
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Ashford, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.16772° or 51° 10′ 4″ northLongitude
0.89122° or 0° 53′ 28″ eastPopulation
4,180Elevation
157 feet (48 metres)Open location code
9F325V9R+3FOpenStreetMap ID
node 26728385OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2645804Wikidata ID
Q6390913
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Kennington” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kennington”
- Dutch: “Kennington, Kent”
- French: “Kennington”
- Irish: “Kennington”
- Ladin: “Kennington (Kent)”
- Ladin: “Kennington”
- Persian: “کنینگتون، کنت”
- Polish: “Kennington (Kent)”
- Polish: “Kennington”
- Russian: “Кеннингтон (Кент)”
- Russian: “Кеннингтон”
- Swedish: “Kennington, Kent”
- Swedish: “Kennington”
- Turkish: “Kennington, Kent”
- Welsh: “Kennington, Caint”
- Welsh: “Kennington”
- “Kennington”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kennington”. Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.