Kennington

Kennington

infobox UK place
country = England
map_type = Greater London
region= London
population=
official_name= Kennington
london_borough= Lambeth
constituency_westminster= Vauxhall
post_town= LONDON
postcode_area= SE
postcode_district= SE11
dial_code= 020
os_grid_reference= TQ305775
latitude= 51.4813
longitude= -0.1197

Kennington is an area of South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is a mixed class residential area, and is the location of the The Oval, the well-known cricket stadium.

Kennington appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as "Chenintune". It was held by Teodric (Theodoric) the Goldsmith. It rendered: 1 hide and 3 virgates; 3 ploughs, convert|4|acre|m2 of meadow. It rendered £3. [ [http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm Surrey Domesday Book] ]

Edward III gave the manor of Kennington to his oldest son Edward "the Black Prince" in 1337, and the prince then built a large royal palace between what is now Black Prince Road and Sancroft Street. Geoffrey Chaucer was employed at Kennington as Clerk of Works in 1389. He was paid 2 shillings. Much of this area of Kennington continues to be owned by the current monarch's elder son (HRH Princes of Wales, Duke of Cornwall - see Dukes of Cornwall ) to the present day.

Kennington Park (laid out by Victorian architect James Pennethorne) and St Mark's Churchyard now cover the site of Kennington Common. In 1746 the Surrey County Gallows at the southern end of the common was used for the execution of nine leaders of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. The Common was also where the Chartists gathered for their biggest demonstration in 1848.

(Fuller details of the Common's history are in the Kennington Park article.)

Kennington Park Road and Clapham Road is a long and straight stretch of road because it follows the old Roman Stane Street. This ran down from the Roman London Bridge to Chichester via the gap in the North Downs at Box Hill near Dorking. Another Roman road branched off opposite Kennington Road and went down through what is now Kennington Park and down the Brixton Road. It carried on through the North Downs near Caterham to Hassocks, just north of the South Downs.

The area is home to Cactus TV Studios, who broadcast Richard & Judy and Richard and Judy's New Position.

Nearest places:
* Vauxhall
* Walworth
* Newington — usually known as Elephant and Castle
* Stockwell
* Camberwell

Nearest tube stations:
* Kennington tube station
* Oval tube station

References

External links

* [http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk/Executions.html Vauxhall Society — Executions on Kennington Common]
* [http://www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk/ Vauxhall, Kennington and the Oval — community website]


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