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Kentish Town. / 51.5447; -0.1459. Kentish Town is an area of northwest London, England in the London Borough of Camden, immediately north of Camden Town. Less than four miles north of central London, Kentish Town has good transport connections and is situated close to the open spaces of Hampstead Heath. Kentish Town likely derives its name from ...
May 25, 2020 · The 16th century writer Philpot believes the name came from the Old English 'æscet' suggesting the town was named after ash trees near a 'ford' or a shallow part of the river.
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Aug 22, 2021 · Herne Bay. The town of Herne Bay took its name from the neighbouring village of Herne, which is 2km inland from the bay. The word herne, meaning a place on a corner of land, evolved from the Old English hyrne, just meaning corner. The village of Herne was first recorded in around 1100 as Hyrnan.
Kentish Town, which lies on the east side of Gospel Oak, and is approached from the "Mother Red Cap," at Camden Town, by a direct road called the Kentish Town Road, is described in gazetteers, &c., as "a hamlet and chapelry in the parish of St. Pancras, in the Holborn division of the hundred of Ossulston."
The Rural Past. The area currently covered by Kentish Town and Gospel Oak was part of the medieval parish of St. Pancras until 1965. Gospel Oak derives its name from an oak tree that once stood at the boundary of St. Pancras and Hampstead parishes, to the east of Southampton Road. The tree would have been included in a customary ceremony in ...
Kentish Town, a metropolitan suburb in St Pancras parish, Middlesex. The suburb lies adjacent to the Regent's Canal, on the North London and Midland railway between Camden Town and Highgate, 3½ miles NW of St Paul's, and is in the NW suburban postal district. The manor belonged at Domesday to the canons of St Paul's, went in 1670, by lease, to ...
A tarnished but characterful district situated north of Camden Town, primarily residential but with some commerce and industry. The district’s name is of obscure Saxon or Celtic origin and is more likely to have been related to a man called Kentish than to the county of Kent. The settlement evolved as a ribbon development on the road to ...
