Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KENNINGTON

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kennington Tn/CP       Radley CP/Ch       Sunningwell CP/AP       Berkshire AncC
Place: Kennington

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