South Kensington




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South Kensington


South Kensington is located in Greater London

South Kensington

South Kensington



South Kensington shown within Greater London

OS grid reference TQ265785
London borough

  • Kensington & Chelsea

  • Westminster
Ceremonial county Greater London
Region
  • London
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LONDON
Postcode district SW7
Dialling code 020
Police Metropolitan
Fire London
Ambulance London

EU Parliament London
UK Parliament

  • Cities of London and Westminster

  • Kensington
London Assembly

  • West Central

  • West Central


List of places

UK

England

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51°29′28″N 0°10′37″W / 51.4912°N 0.1769°W / 51.4912; -0.1769Coordinates: 51°29′28″N 0°10′37″W / 51.4912°N 0.1769°W / 51.4912; -0.1769

South Kensington is an affluent district of West London split between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster.




Contents






  • 1 Geography


  • 2 History


  • 3 Notable residents


  • 4 Nearby places


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Geography


It is hard to define boundaries for South Kensington, but a common definition is the commercial area around the South Kensington tube station and the adjacent garden squares and streets (such as Thurloe Square, opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum). The smaller neighbourhood around Gloucester Road tube station can also be considered a part, and Albertopolis around Exhibition Road, which includes the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Baden-Powell House. Other institutions such as the Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College London, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal College of Art, the Royal College of Music are within the City of Westminster, but considered to be in South Kensington. Although the postcode SW7 mainly covers South Kensington, some parts of Knightsbridge are also covered.


Neighbouring the equally affluent centres of Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Kensington, South Kensington covers some of the most exclusive real estate in the world. It is home to large numbers of French expatriates (mainly employed in the City, the financial centre), but also Spanish, Italian, American, and Middle-Eastern citizens, as well as a significant number of celebrities. A significant French presence is evidenced by the location of the consulate, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle – a large French secondary school opposite the Natural History Museum – and the Institut Français, home to a French cinema. There are several French bookshops and cafes in the area and is even sometimes referred to as Paris’s 21st arrondissement.[1]


Two London Underground stations are located in South Kensington: South Kensington and Gloucester Road tube stations.



History





Imperial College, South Kensington, London




The Natural History Museum





St Stephen's Church, viewed from Gloucester Road


The area was largely undeveloped until the mid-19th century, being an agricultural area supplying London with fruit and vegetables. Following the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, an 87-acre (352,000 m²) area around what is now Exhibition Road was purchased by the commissioners of the exhibition, in order to create a home for institutions dedicated to the arts and sciences, resulting in the foundation of the museums and university here. Adjacent landowners began to develop their land in the 1860s as a result of the creation of new roads and a boom in the development of areas around London, and the absorption of South Kensington into London was sealed by the arrival of the Underground at Gloucester Road and South Kensington in 1868, linking the area directly to the main railway termini and to the political, commercial and financial hearts of the city in Westminster, the West End and the City of London.


In 1863 it was decided that the Church of England parish of Kensington should be divided up, and the parish of South Kensington was created, the parish church being St Stephen's (built 1865) on the corner of Gloucester Road and Southwell Gardens.[2]


The area is the subject of Donovan's song "Sunny South Kensington", about the area's reputation as the hip part of London in the 1960s.




Evening snow at Evelyn Gardens, South Kensington in 2010.



Notable residents




The Queen's Tower, Imperial College


Notable residents have included:




  • Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), poet, playwright and wit, lived with his wife and children at 34 Tite Street (then 16).

  • Sir Henry Cole (1808–1882), campaigner, educator and first director of the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum), lived at 33 Thurloe Square.


  • Charles Booth (1840–1916), pioneer of social research, lived at 6 Grenville Place.


  • George Wallis, FSA, (1811–1891), artist, museum curator and art educator, first Keeper of Fine Art Collection at South Kensington Museum.
    • His children, including Whitworth Wallis and Rosa Wallis.


  • Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853–1917), actor-manager, lived at 31 Rosary Gardens.


  • Sir J M Barrie (1860–1937), playwright and novelist, author of Peter Pan, and his wife Mary née Ansell, actress, at 133 Gloucester Road


  • Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), author and artist, spent her early life in Bolton Gardens.


  • Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), writer, and her sister Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), painter and interior designer, lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate until 1904.


  • Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Irish-born British artist, lived at 17 Queensberry Mews and 7 Reese Mews.


  • Benny Hill (1924–1992), comedian, lived at 1 & 2 Queen's Gate.


  • Nicholas Freeman, OBE, (1939–1989) controversial Leader of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, lived in Harrington Gardens, near Gloucester Road.


  • Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909–97), liberal philosopher

  • Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.


  • Dennis Gabor (1900–1979), electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. Lived in No. 79, Queen's Gate.


  • Peter Finch (1916–1977), English-born distinguished Australian actor, won 5 BAFTA acting awards and he was the first person to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category.


  • Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, FRAeS, DL (1910–1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged



Nearby places



  • Brompton

  • Chelsea

  • Earls Court

  • Kensington

  • Knightsbridge

  • West Kensington



References





  1. ^ Financial Times: Brexit vote puts brake on flow of French bankers to London


  2. ^ A Short History and Walk Around St Stephen's Church, South Kensington (pamphlet published by the church, undated)




External links








  • London/South Kensington-Chelsea travel guide from Wikivoyage

  • What's on in South Kensington – the home of science, arts and inspiration

  • South Kensington Web site

  • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Web site

  • City of Westminster Web site


  • Exploring South Kensington Architecture and history










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