Kentish Town is an area of northwest

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, England, in the

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, immediately north of

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, close to

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. Kentish Town likely derives its name from Ken-ditch or Caen-ditch, meaning the "bed of a waterway." The area was initially a small settlement on the

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, first recorded in 1207 during King John's reign. The early 19th century brought modernization to the area, and it became a popular resort due to its accessibility from London. Notably,

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resided at 46 Grafton Terrace in Kentish Town from 1856. The area saw further development after World War II and has a rich history of political representation, with the Holborn and St Pancras seat held by Labour Party Prime Minister

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as of July 2024. Kentish Town has also been a popular filming location for various movies and television shows. It is home to numerous independently owned shops, music venues, and cultural establishments, such as the Kentish Town Community Centre.

Toponymy

The name of Kentish Town is probably derived from ''Ken-ditch'' or ''Caen-ditch'', meaning the "bed of a waterway" and is otherwise unrelated to the English county of

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. In researching the meaning of ''Ken-ditch'', it has also been noted that ''ken'' is the Celtic word for both "green" and "river", while ''ditch'' refers to the

, now a

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. However, another theory is the name comes from its position near the Fleet; it has been suggested that Kentish Town, which lies in between two forks of the Fleet, takes its name from ''cant'' or ''cantle'' (from the Middle English meaning "corner").

History

Kentish Town was originally a small settlement on the

(the waterway is now one of London's underground rivers). It is first recorded during the reign of King John (1207) as ''kentisston''. By 1456 Kentish Town was a thriving hamlet. In this period, a

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was built for its inhabitants. The early 19th century brought modernisation, causing much of the area's rural qualities, the River Fleet and the 18th-century buildings to vanish, although pockets still remain, for example Little Green Street. Between the availability of public transport to it from London, and its urbanisation, it was a popular resort. Large amounts of land were purchased to build the

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, which can still be seen today. Kentish Town was a prime site for development as the Kentish Town Road was a major route from London northwards.

was a famous resident, living at 46 Grafton Terrace from 1856. Jenny Marx described this eight-room house in Kentish Town as "A truly princely dwelling, compared with the holes we used to live in" (March 11, 1861 letter by Jenny Marx, quoted in Rachel Holmes, "Eleanor Marx: A Life", Bloomsbury Books, London, 2014, P 10). 1877 saw the beginning of mission work in the area as it was then poor. The mission first held their services outside but as their funding increased they built a mission house,

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, and vicarage. One mission house of the area was Lyndhurst Hall which remained in use before being taken over by the Council. The Council wished it to sell it for residential use, and the hall was demolished in 2006. During the 19th century and early 20th century the area of Kentish Town became the home of several piano and organ manufacturers, and was described by The Piano Journal in 1901 as "...that healthful suburb dear to the heart of the piano maker". A network of streets in the East of Kentish Town has streets named after places or persons connected with

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viz: Oseney, Busby, Gaisford, Caversham, Islip, Wolsey, Frideswide, Peckwater & Hammond. All these streets lay behind the Oxford Arms. Some of the freehold of these streets is still in the name of Christ Church Oxford. A network of streets in the north of Kentish Town was part of a large estate owned by

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. Lady Margaret Road is named after

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, foundress of St John's College. Burghley Road is named after Lord Burghley, Chancellor to

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and benefactor of St John's. Similarly, College Lane, Evangelist Road and Lady Somerset Road are street names linked to the estate of St John's College. In 1912 the Church of St Silas the Martyr (designed by architect Ernest Charles Shearman) was finally erected and consecrated, and by December of that year it became a

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in its own right. It can still be seen today along with the church of St Luke with St Paul and the Church of St Barnabas (handed over to the

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in 1957). The present

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parish church is St Benet and All Saints, Lupton Street. In his poem ''Parliament Hill Fields,'' Sir John Betjeman refers to "the curious Anglo-Norman parish church of Kentish Town". This possibly refers to the former parish Church of St John Kentish Town. Kentish Town Road contains one of London's many disused Tube stations. South Kentish Town tube station was closed in June 1924 after

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at the Lots Road Power Station meant the lift could not be used. It never reopened as a station, although it was used as an air raid shelter during

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. The distinctive building is now occupied underground by a massage shop and on ground level by a 'Cash Converters' pawn shop at the corner of Kentish Town Road and Castle Road. There have been proposals to rebuild the station. Kentish Town was to see further modernisation in the post-World War II period. However, the residential parts of Kentish Town, dating back to the mid-19th century have survived.

Political representation

Kentish Town is part of the Holborn and St Pancras seat which is held by Labour Party Prime Minister

as of March 2024. Kentish Town was an early base for the

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and the increasingly

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population has returned large votes for the

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s and Liberal Democrats. In May 2006 the Liberal Democrats won two of the three Council seats in Kentish Town, strengthening this hold by taking the final seat in a by-election in November of the same year. In the Council elections in May 2010, Labour regained all three Council seats. In May 2022, the ward of Kentish Town North elected two Labour Councillors Sylvia McNamara and James Slater. Kentish Town South reelected Labour Councillors Georgia Gould, Meric Apac, and Jenny Headlam-Wells.

Demography

In the 2011 census, 53% of the population was White British and 15% were White Other.

Filming location

In 2002 the comedy and drama film '' About a Boy'' was filmed in Lady Margaret Road, which is located at the top of Kentish Town, and Oseney Crescent. Many of the filming locations used in the 2006 film ''

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'', starring Peter O'Toole,

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, and

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were in Kentish Town. In 1959 Lady Somerset Road and Oakford Road were used substantially for the filming of ''

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'', a film exploring racial tension in London, directed by

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. The Assembly House pub was the location for the 1971 film ''

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'' starring

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. The 1993 comedy '' Bad Behaviour'', featuring Stephen Rea and

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, was set in Kentish Town and includes scenes set in several local streets and the Owl Bookshop. The 1947 Ealing Studios film '' It Always Rains on Sunday'' had scenes shot in Clarence Way during 1944 or 46 showing Holy Trinity Church with just the lower part of its spire still intact following the destruction of the upper section of the spire in WWII. The entire spire has since been removed leaving the church, effectively, with a tower. Kentish Town was also used as the location for the BBC comedy series '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'' with its main protagonists Tom and Linda living with their ex-prostitute landlord and upstairs neighbour Beryl at the fictional and suggestively named "69 Paradise Passage". In addition, the video of the Madness track " Baggy Trousers" was filmed at Islip Street School and the park in Kentish Town. The Anglican Parish Church of St John Kentish Town, now known as "Christs Apostolic Church", was used by ''

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'' as the backdrop (in external scenes) exterior of the Church where Damien was christened. Plenty of exterior shots in the BBC

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Fleabag were filmed in Kentish Town, star/writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge being a resident.

Shops and businesses

In 2005, a survey of Kentish Town by the local

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claimed that out of 87 shops on Kentish Town Road (locally known as Kentish Town High Street), 53 were still independently owned. The high street is a mixture of national retail chains and independent shops, including a long-standing bookshop, several delis and organic stores. Many 'World Food' shops have opened up on the street. However, since 2009 there has been a marked increase in independent shops being replaced with chain stores including Pret a Manger,

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, Caffe Nero and Sainsbury's.

Kentish Town Health Centre

An architectural design competition was launched by RIBA Competitions and Camden Primary Care Trust and James Wigg Practice to design a new integrated care centre in Kentish Town that would deliver a flagship building, new models of care, enhance integrated working and provide a model for future delivery of primary care throughout the country. Through this process Architect
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were selected and the building opened in 2008 and has since been credited with a number of awards including RIBA Award for Architecture 2009 and ''Building Magazine'' Public Building Project of the Year 2010.

Kentish Town Community Centre

Kentish Town Community Centre is a community centre, created in 2004, to provide meeting spaces and activities for local residents of all ages.

Culture

Pub rock is usually traced back to the "Tally Ho" in Kentish Town, a former jazz pub, where Eggs over Easy started playing in May 1971, and were soon joined by Bees Make Honey, Brinsley Schwarz, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Ducks Deluxe and others. The Assembly House is a

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pub at 292–294 Kentish Town Road. Kentish Town is also home to The Forum (formerly known as the Town and Country club), during the 1950s a cinema, and now a live music venue. Spring 2014 saw Kentish Town to get its first speak easy, 1920s style hidden bar, when Knowhere Special opened its doors next to Kentish Town station. Torriano Avenue, dating back to 1848, is a Kentish Town street home to Pete Stanley, one of the country's best-known bluegrass banjo players; British actor Bill Nighy; and The Torriano Poets, where local poets have met for over 20 years and still hold weekly public poetry readings on Sunday evenings: its founder was John Rety. The street is also home to two pubs, one being an 1850s hostelry The Leighton, the other The Torriano, which was for many years an old-fashioned community off-licence. They take their names from the local landowners, Sir David Leighton and Joshua Torriano, who developed the land for housing in the mid 19th century. One of London's most famous nudist public baths, Rio's, is in Kentish Town.

Kentish Town Sports Centre

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The largest municipal building is the Kentish Town Sports Centre which opened as the St Pancras public baths in 1903, designed by Thomas W. Aldwinckle. The large complex originally had separate first and second class men's baths and a women's baths, along with a public hall. Little of the interior remains intact. The baths were closed in January 2007 for refurbishment and re-opened at the end of July 2010.

Architecture and geography

Kentish Town has a fairly large boundary, stretching from Camden Gardens to as a far north as the Highgate Road/Gordon House Road junction near Dartmouth Park. Kentish Town generally includes the areas to the west, around Queens Crescent and to the east around Torriano.

Notable residents

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, restaurant critic * Joe Craig, author of the '' Jimmy Coates'' series * Charles Dance, actor * Hunter Davies, writer * Simon Day, comedian * Noel Fielding, comedian * Margaret Forster, writer * Ben Goldacre, medical doctor and journalist *

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, reggae and rock artist * William Harrison, popular tenor and actor * Patricia Hewitt, former Secretary of State for Health *

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, 19th century journalist and poet * Bert Jansch, folk musician *

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, comedian and poet * Roger Lloyd-Pack, actor * Katharine Sarah Macquoid, writer *

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, historian, barrister and journalist * Mae Muller, singer and songwriter * Henry Neele, poet * Jimmie Nicol, former

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, writer * Gareth Peirce, solicitor * Katherine Pierce, actress * Lucy Porter, comedian * Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-10 tennis player * James Canham Read (1855–1894) the "Southend Murderer" *

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Transport

Kentish Town has a range of transport connections: a mainline railway station that is served by

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along with an interchange to the London Underground; Underground stations, overground connection (at Kentish Town West and Camden Road stations) and multiple bus routes with the majority going into or around Central London.

Bus Routes

The following Bus Routes serve Kentish Town: 88 (24 hour), 134 (24 hour), 214 (24 hour), 393 and Night Bus Route N20.

Nearest stations

* Kentish Town station * Gospel Oak railway station * Kentish Town West railway station * Camden Road railway station * Camden Town tube station * Caledonian Road tube station

Neighbouring areas

and

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to the south * Barnsbury to the south-east *

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and Holloway to the east * Dartmouth Park and Archway to the north-east *

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to the north *

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and

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to the west

Footnotes

References

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