Welcome to Visit Kensal Town Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Kensal Town


Visit Kensal Town PlacesVisit Kensal Town places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Kensal Town places to visit. A unique way to experience Kensal Town’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Kensal Town as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Kensal Town is a residential sub-district of Kensal Green in north-west London. It is located at the northern tip of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea where it meets the City of Westminster. The name had been used since the 1840s to distinguish the area south of the Harrow Road, in between the Grand Union Canal and the Great Western Main Line, where new housing was largely occupied by Irish immigrants. When you visit Kensal Town, Walkfo brings Kensal Town places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Kensal Town Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Kensal Town

Visit Kensal Town – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 770 audio plaques & Kensal Town places for you to explore in the Kensal Town area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Kensal Town places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Kensal Town with Walkfo Travel Guide App?

Visit Kensal Town PlacesYou can visit Kensal Town places with Walkfo Kensal Town to hear history at Kensal Town’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Kensal Town has 770 places to visit in our interactive Kensal Town map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Kensal Town, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Kensal Town places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Kensal Town & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 770 audio facts unique to Kensal Town places in an interactive Kensal Town map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Kensal Town Places Map
770 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

 
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Walkfo Kensal Town tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Kensal Town

  

Best Kensal Town places to visit

Kensal Town has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Kensal Town’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Kensal Town’s information audio spots:

Kensal Town photo Kronenburgerpark
The Kronenburgerpark is a park in the center of Nijmegen . It is close to the Central Railway Station and the Lange Hezelstraat . It touches the Parkweg are the remains of the medieval walls with the Kruittoren (powder tower)
Kensal Town photo Great Pilgrimage
The Great Pilgrimage of 1913 was a march in Britain by suffragists campaigning non-violently for women’s suffrage, organised by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). Women marched to London from all around England and Wales and 50,000 attended a rally in Hyde Park.
Kensal Town photo Royal Parks Half Marathon
The Royal Parks Half Marathon, first held in 2008, takes place each October, starting and finishing in Hyde Park. It is the only half marathon that travels through central London and four of the Royal Parks and is one of London’s largest half marathons, with over 16,000 participants.
Kensal Town photo Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition which took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World’s Fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century. The event was organised by Henry Cole and by Prince Albert, husband of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria. Famous people of the time attended the Great Exhibition, including Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Michael Faraday (who assisted with the planning and judging of exhibits), Samuel Colt, members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson and William Makepeace Thackeray. The opening music, under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett, was directed by Sir George Smart. The world’s first soft drink, Schweppes, was the official sponsor of the event.
Kensal Town photo The Long Water
The Long Water is a recreational lake in Kensington Gardens, London, England, created in 1730 at the behest of Queen Caroline. The Long Water refers to the long and narrow western half of the lake that is known as the Serpentine. Serpentine Bridge, which marks the boundary between Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, also marks the Long Water’s eastern boundary. The Long Water and the Serpentine are generally considered to be part of one lake.
Kensal Town photo Dudley House, London
Dudley House is a Grade II* listed house with 44,000 square feet (4,100 m) located at 100 Park Lane in Mayfair, London . It is one of the few surviving aristocratic townhouses in London .
Kensal Town photo Exhibit A (art exhibition)
Exhibit A was an art exhibition in the galleries of the Serpentine Gallery, London, from May 7—June 7, 1992 . Exhibit A is a collection of artworks from 1992 to 1992 .
Kensal Town photo Rock on Top of Another Rock
Rock on Top of Another Rock is a sculpture by the artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss . It consists of one large rock balanced on top of another large rock .
Kensal Town photo Dunraven Street
Dunraven Street is a street in London’s Mayfair district . It was laid out in the 1750s as Norfolk Street and was sometimes known as New Norfolk Street . In 1939, it was renamed after being laid out by London County Council .
Kensal Town photo Hyde Park Estate
Hyde Park Estate is a residential district in the Paddington area of London . It is characterised by a layout of squares and crescents . The area is home to embassies, prestigious businesses and celebrities .

Visit Kensal Town plaques

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here Kensal Town has 434 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Kensal Town plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Kensal Town using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Kensal Town plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.