Kensington Square

Kensington Square is a garden square in , London, W8. It was built from 1692 on land acquired for the purpose in 1685 and is the oldest such square in Kensington.
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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.

Theater building
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The is a concert hall on the northern edge of , , 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.

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 in London fare zone 1.

Museum
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The in London, England, 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 , the others being the Science Museum and the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kensington and South Kensington.

Suburb
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is an area of in the , centred around 2.9 miles west of . The district's commercial heart is High Street, which runs east–west.

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 .

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 to the northeast.

Kensington Square

Latitude
51.50055° or 51° 30′ 2″ north
Longitude
-0.19008° or 0° 11′ 24″ west
Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGR25+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 128409470
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­garden
Geo­Names ID
10377002
Wiki­data ID
Q3814645
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Satellite Map

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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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