Kennington
Kennington is a district in Central London, England. It is mainly within the London Borough of Lambeth, running along the boundary with the London Borough of Southwark, a boundary which can be discerned from the early medieval period between the Lambeth and St George's parishes of those boroughs respectively.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 4,000 residents
- Description: area of London, mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth
- Neighbors: South Bank
Places of Interest
Highlights include Durning Library and The Oval.
Durning Library
Library
Photo: Edwardx, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Durning Library is a public lending library in Kennington, London. It is part of Lambeth Libraries in the London Borough of Lambeth and is in purpose-built Grade II listed building at 167 Kennington Lane, Kennington, London SE11.
The Oval
Stadium
Photo: Jguk, Public domain.
The Oval, currently named for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, located in the borough of Lambeth, in south London.
Cleaver Square
Park
Cleaver Square is an 18th-century garden square in the London Borough of Lambeth, dating from 1789. It is notable for having been the first garden square in South London.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kennington Cross and Lambeth.
Kennington Cross
Neighborhood
Photo: Jwslubbock, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kennington Cross is a locality in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is at the junction of two major roads, Kennington Lane that links Vauxhall Cross with the Elephant and Castle and Kennington Road that runs from Waterloo to Kennington Park.
Lambeth
Suburb
Photo: brodiepunk, CC BY 2.0.
Lambeth is a district in South London, England, which today also gives its name to the London Borough of Lambeth. Lambeth itself was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey.
Vauxhall
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vauxhall is an area of South London, within the London Borough of Lambeth. Named after a medieval manor called Fox Hall, it became well known for the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
Kennington
- Categories: town, area of London, and locality
- Location: London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.48845° or 51° 29′ 18″ northLongitude
-0.10925° or 0° 6′ 33″ westPopulation
4,000Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KIGOpen location code
9C3XFVQR+97OpenStreetMap ID
node 27553702OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kennington” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيننجتون”
- Arabic: “كينينغتون”
- Armenian: “Քենինգթոն”
- Asturian: “Kennington”
- Basque: “Kennington”
- Catalan: “Kennington”
- Chinese: “肯宁顿”
- Chinese: “肯寧頓”
- Czech: “Kennington”
- Dutch: “Kennington”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيننجتون”
- Finnish: “Kennington”
- French: “Kennington”
- German: “Kennington”
- Greek: “Κένινγκτον”
- Hebrew: “קנינגטון”
- Indonesian: “Kennington”
- Irish: “Kennington”
- Italian: “Kennington”
- Japanese: “ケニントン”
- Japanese: “ケンニントン”
- Ladin: “Kennington (Surrey)”
- Ladin: “Kennington”
- Malagasy: “Kennington”
- N'Ko: “ߞߋߣߌ߲ߜ߭ߑߕߐ߲߬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kennington”
- Norwegian: “Kennington”
- Persian: “کنینگتون”
- Polish: “Kennington”
- Portuguese: “Kennington”
- Russian: “Кеннингтон”
- South Azerbaijani: “کنینقتون”
- Spanish: “Kennington”
- Swedish: “Kennington, London”
- Swedish: “Kennington”
- Turkish: “Kennington”
- Ukrainian: “Кеннінгтон”
- Urdu: “کیننگٹن”
- Welsh: “Kennington”
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