In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Kennington like this:
KENNINGTON, a township-chapelry in Radley and Sunningwell parishes, Berks; on the Oxford railway and the river Thames, at the boundary with Oxfordshire, 2½ miles S by E of Oxford. Post town, Oxford. Real property, £1, 107. Pop., 138. Houses, 31. Pop. of the Radley portion, 61. Houses, 14. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £93. Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1838.
Kennington through time
Kennington is now part of Vale of White Horse district. Click here for graphs and data of how Vale of White Horse has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Kennington itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kennington, in Vale of White Horse and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22857
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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