Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea

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Kensington is a settlement in Kensington and Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Kensington within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Kensington in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Kensington.-- parl. bor. and par. with ry. sta., Middlesex, in W. of London, 2190 ac., pop. 163,151; contains the South Kensington Museum, the gardens of the Horticultural Society, the Kensington Gardens (300 acres), which extend to Hyde Park, and Kensington Palace (the property of the Crown since the time of William III.), in which Queen Victoria was born. Kensington parl. bor. is divided into 2 divisions - viz., North and South-1 member for each division; it was made a parl. bor. in 1885.

Kensington in the Domesday Book

A village in Ossulstone hundred, in the county of Middlesex.

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