Kennington, Berkshire

Historical Description

Kennington, a small village and an ecclesiastical parish in the civil parish of Radley, Berks, on the river Thames, at the boundary with Oxfordshire, 2 miles N from Radley station on the G.W.R., and 2½ S by E from Oxford. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Oxford. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 159. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £190. Patron, All Souls' College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1828.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Cemeteries

A new church burial ground, 1 acre in extent, the gift of Edgar Norton Disney esq. was consecrated by the Bishop of Oxford in 1914.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1829.

Churches

Church of England

Civil Registration

Kennington was in Abingdon Registration District from 1936 to 1974

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kennington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kennington)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Berkshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Kennington are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Berkshire papers online:

• Reading Mercury
• Windsor and Eton Express
• Berkshire Chronicle

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Berkshire 1532, 1566, and 1665-6 is available online.