We could not match "KENSAL TOWN" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 5 possible matches we have found for you:

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "KENSAL TOWN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  KENSALL-GREEN	Middlesex	KENSALL-GREEN , a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry in Chelsea, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith, and Willesden parishes, Middlesex. The suburb lies on the Paddington canal, adjacent to four railways, and to junctions of them, 5 miles WNW of St. Paul's, London; comprises Kensall-Green hamlet and KensallNew-Town	Imperial
  Kensal Town	Middlesex	Kensal Town , eccl. dist., Chelsea and Paddington pars., Middlesex, in W. of London, pop. 9377.	Bartholomew
  London	Essex Kent Middlesex Surrey	Kensal Green, Brompton, Hampstead, Highgate, Nunhead, Norwood, and Abney Park. London is the supreme seat of the judicature of the country. The principal courts are concentrated in the magnificent range of buildings known as the New Law Courts. The Inns of Court are to some extent colleges for law students, and include the Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn. Altogether the different courts give employment to over 3000 barristers and 5000 solicitors. Exclusive of the Mansion House and Guildhall, in the City, there are 13 police courts in various parts of the metropolis	Bartholomew
  LONDON	London London	Town, Northolt, Old Ford, Paddington, Mile-End-Old-Town, Poplar, Ratcliffe, Shadwell, South Hackney, Stepney, St. Barnabas-Homerton, St. BotolphBishopsgate, St. George-in-the-East, Whitechapel, Bethnal-Green, Wapping, and West Hackney; the chapelries in these parishes, and the chapelries of St. James-Clapton, St. Peter-De-Beauvoir-square, St. Philip-Dalston, and St. Thomas-Stamford-hill. The archdeaconry of Middlesex comprises the parishes of Fulham and Kensington, and the deaneries of Barnes and Hammersmith, St. George-Bloomsbury, Chelsea, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, St. George-Hanover-square, Hampton, Harrow, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. Marylebone, Paddington, St. Pancras, Staines, Uxbridge	Imperial
  MANCHESTER	Lancashire Manchester	Town, and Bradford, about 2 miles E of the Royal Exchange; comprises about 31 acres; has such natural contour and such artificial embellishments as to be eminently beautiful or almost romantic; and contains several lakes, numerous parterres, bowers and shrubberies, a gymnasium, archery-grounds, and skittle and quoit alleys.-A park at Moss-side, for the Hulme suburb, and to be called Alexandra Park, was projected in 1869.-The race-course was formerly on Kensall	Imperial

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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