Oval
Oval is an area in south London, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is the part of Kennington around The Oval cricket ground, situated 2.1 miles to the southeast of Charing Cross.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 15,100 residents
- Description: area in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, UK
- Also known as: “Oval, London”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Oval and Ovalhouse.
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.
Ovalhouse
Theater building
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Ovalhouse, formerly called Oval House Theatre, was an Off-West End theatre in the London Borough of Lambeth, located at 52–54 Kennington Oval, London, SE11 5SW. It closed in 2020, and moved to Brixton, becoming the Brixton House theatre.
Oval tube station
Metro station
Photo: Ewan Munro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oval is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is on the Northern line between Kennington and Stockwell stations, and is in London fare zone 2.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kennington Cross and Kennington.
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.
Kennington
Suburb
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Oval
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Lambeth, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.48212° or 51° 28′ 56″ northLongitude
-0.1145° or 0° 6′ 52″ westPopulation
15,100Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
9C3XFVJP+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 8821128225OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6690601Wikidata ID
Q145711
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Oval” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوفال”
- Esperanto: “Ovalo”
- Irish: “Oval”
- Japanese: “オーバル (ロンドン)”
- Japanese: “オーバル”
- Turkish: “Oval”
- Urdu: “اوول، لندن”
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Highlights include Hanover Gardens and The White House, Oval House Theatre.
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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 “Oval”. Photo: Jguk, Public domain.