Kensington is a Town in the county of Greater London.

Kensington postcode: W8 6NA

Retail in Kensington

There are great places to visit near Kensington including some great cities, castles, museums, rivers and streams, shopping centres, towns, historic monuments and airports.

Kensington is near some unmissable cities like London,

Don't miss The Tower of London's castles if visiting the area around Kensington.

The area around Kensington boasts some of the best museums including The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Kensington include River Thames at London.

Kensington's best nearby shopping centres can be found at Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre.

Kensington has some unmissable towns nearby like Hendon, Greenwich, and Croydon.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Kensington like Cutty Sark.

There are a number of airports near Kensington including London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport.

Kensington History

There are some historic monuments around Kensington:

• Pottery kiln in Walmer Road
• Apothecaries' Hall
• Inner Temple Hall Buttery
• Coombe Conduit
• The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber in the abbey cloisters, Westminster Abbey
• Remains of Roman and medieval wall and gateway W of boundary of Stationers' Hall to Ludgate Hill
• Kew Palace (remains of)
• Stationers' Hall
• Bell Barrow called Boadicea's Grave, 650m west of Millfield Cottage
• King Henry VIII's Mound, Richmond Park
• Manor House moated site, East End Road, Finchley
• Ivy Conduit, Coombe
• London Wall: section in Amen Court
• Chiswick House
• The Jewel Tower
• London Wall: section of Roman wall at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey
• Brick reservoir 300yds (270m) SW of Gallows Conduit, Coombe
• Gallows Conduit, Coombe
• Baynard's Castle, 78m south-west of St Benet Metropolitan Welsh Church
• Kensington Palace
• Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)
• A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1
• London Wall: site of Newgate and 121-124 Newgate Street, remains of Roman and medieval wall, gateway and bastion
• Caesar's Camp, Wimbledon Common
• Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell
• Fulham Palace moated site
• Mound at TQ1891972117, Richmond Park
• The Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Merton, 271m ENE of Abbey Wall Works