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Kennington history


Toponymy

Kennington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Chenintune . It is recorded as Kenintone in 1229 and Kenyngton in 1263 . Mills (2001) believes the name to be Old English meaning “farmstead or estate associated with a man called Cēna”

Early history

The presence of a tumulus, and other locally significant geographical features, suggest that the area was regarded in ancient times as a sacred place of assembly . According to the Domesday Book it was held by Teodric (Theodoric) the Goldsmith . It contained: 1 hide and 3 virgates; 3 ploughs, 4 acres (16,000 m) of meadow .

18th century

Francis Towneley and eight men who had taken part in the Jacobite rising were hanged, drawn and quartered at Kennington Common in 1746 .

19th century

The modern street pattern of Kennington was formed by the early nineteenth century . The village had become a semi-rural suburb with grand terraced houses .

20th-century history

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Two social forces were at work in Kennington at different times during the twentieth century: decline, and gentrification . Middle-class households ceased to employ servants and no longer sought large houses of Kennington, preferring the suburbs of outer London .

21st-century gentrification

In recent years, Kennington has experienced gentrification, principally because of its location and good transport links to the West End and the City of London . In London: A Social History, Roy Porter describes “Victorian villas in … Kennington”

  

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