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