Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KENSINGTON-GRAVEL-PITS

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))

Linked entities:
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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