Kennington

Kennington is a district of the South of London, located in the London district of Lambeth. It is very working residential suburbs and one finds the Oval there, celebrates stage of Cricket.

In 1337 Edouard III gave the manor of Kennington to his/her oldest son Edouard, “Prince Noir”, who built a royal large palace then between what is now Black Prince Road and Sancroft Street. Geoffrey Chaucer was employed in Kennington as secretary of work in 1389, receiving for this task 2 shillings. The field of Kennington always belongs to the oldest sons of the sovereigns (Princes de Galles and dukes of Cornwall).

The Park of Kennington (created by the architect victorien James Pennethorne) and the Saint-Marc cemetery occupy the site of Common now, the pre communal one of Kennington. In 1746 Gibet of the County of Surrey, at the southern end of Common, was used to carry out nine chiefs of the rebellion jacobite of 1745. Common was also the place where the chartists gathered for their greater demonstration in 1848.

Kennington Park Road and Clapham Road constitute a long road and right-hand side which follows the old Roman road. It goes from the Roman Bridge of London to Chichester while passing by the threshold of the hills of North to Box Hill, close to Dorking. Another Roman road forked on the side opposed to Kennington Road and went down by what is now Kennington Park until Brixton Road. Through the Hills of North it led to Hassocks close to Caterham, just in the north of the Hills of the South.

The closest localities:

Vauxhall
Walworth
Newington - generally known under the name of Elephant and Castle
Stockwell
Camberwell

Closest subway stations:

Subway station of Kennington
Oval Subway station

There are two villages in England which carry them also this name:

Kennington : a village in Kent
Kennington: a village in the south of Oxford

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