Kensington Square
Kensington Square is a garden square in Kensington, London, W8. It was built from 1692 on land acquired for the purpose in 1685 and is the oldest such square in Kensington.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Garden
- Description: garden square in Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- Also known as: “Kensington Square Garden”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Royal Albert Hall and High Street Kensington tube station.
Royal Albert Hall
Theater building
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The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage.
High Street Kensington tube station
Metro station
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High Street Kensington is a London Underground station on Kensington High Street, Kensington. It is served by the Circle and District lines and is located in London fare zone 1.
Natural History Museum
Museum
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The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kensington and South Kensington.
Kensington
Suburb
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Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around 2.9 miles west of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis.
South Kensington
Suburb
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South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton.
Earls Court
Suburb
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Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the northeast.
Kensington Square
- Categories: square and recreation area
- Location: South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50055° or 51° 30′ 2″ northLongitude
-0.19008° or 0° 11′ 24″ westElevation
82 feet (25 metres)Open location code
9C3XGR25+6XOpenStreetMap ID
way 128409470OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=garden
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Kensington Square” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “肯辛顿广场”
- Dutch: “Kensington Square”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان كنسينجتون”
- French: “Kensington Square”
- Italian: “Kensington Square”
- Japanese: “ケンジントンスクエア”
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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 “Kensington Square”. Photo: Mahlum, Public domain.