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KENSINGTON-GRAVEL-PITS, a metropolitan suburb in Kensington parish, Middlesex; 1 mile NNE of Kensington Town. It was originally a place of gravelpits; and it passed through the stage of a hamlet to its present condition.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a metropolitan suburb" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Kensington Vest/AP/CP Middlesex AncC |
Place: | Kensington Gravel Pits |
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