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Kennington in Surrey County England History and GeographyKENNINGTON, a district in the parish of LAMBETH, eastern division of the hundred of BRIXTON, county of SURREY, 2½ miles (S.S.W.) from London. The population is returned with Lambeth. This place consists principally of several ranges of handsome houses in the line of road leading from the metropolis towards Clapham and Brixton. The name is said to be of Saxon origin, there having been a royal palace here prior to the Conquest, whence the appellation Cynington, from the Saxon Cyning, a king. Kennington is distinguished in history as the scene of the banquet, or marriage festival, of a Danish nobleman, at which Hardicanute, the son of Canute the Great, became the victim of his own intemperance, or, according to some writers, was poisoned; and, in commemoration of his death, the festival called Hocktide is supposed to have been instituted. The palace was subsequently the favourite residence of the Black Prince, and the occasional resort of Henry VIII. and some of his predecessors; but it was at length superseded by the manor-house, which was inhabited by Charles I., when Prince of Wales; and the site, called Park Place, is now covered by modern buildings. Kennington common, an unenclosed tract of ground belonging to the duchy of Cornwall, was formerly the place of execution for criminals convicted at the Surrey assizes; and here several of the adherents of the Pretender underwent the sentence of the law as traitors, in 1746. This place is lighted with gas, and is supplied with water from the South London Water-works. Here are manufactories for oil of vitriol and wadding. Kennington is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests held in the borough of Southwark, for the recovery of debts under 40s.; also within the limits of the New Police. The church, dedicated to St. Mark, is a spacious edifice, with a Grecian Doric portico, tower, and cupola, at the west end, erected in 1824, at an expense, including the purchase of the site and furniture, of £22,719. 19. 11., of which sum the parliamentary commissioners gave £7651. 1. 10., lent without interest £8442. 2 6., and the remainder with interest. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester, and in the patronage of the Rector of Lambeth. This is one of the four districts into which the parish of Lambeth has lately been divided, each of which, on the decease of the present incumbent of Lambeth, will be constituted a distinct rectory. There is an episcopal chapel in Kennington-lane; and those at Stockwell and South Lambeth are within this district. The Independents have two places of worship, and the Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists have one each. There is a school in Kennington-lane under the patronage of the Company of Licensed Victuallers, in which eighty-nine boys and eighty-nine girls are clothed and educated. A National school, in which two hundred boys and one hundred and sixty girls are instructed, was erected in Kennington-oval, in 1824, at an expense of £2500; and an infant school for this district was instituted in 1828. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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