14 Facts About Kensal Green

In 2009, Chamberlayne Road in Kensal Rise was named the "hippest street in Europe" by Vogue magazine, and in 2021 it was described as London's version of Beverly Hills.

Luxury goods maker Mulberry named its handbag Kensal Green and launched an advertising campaign with Cara Delevingne.

London Overground's North London Line services operate out of Kensal Green Rise railway station and provides regular services to Richmond in the west, Stratford in the east, and Clapham Junction in the south.

Kensal Green is located on the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal making it possible to go to Little Venice, the Paddington Basin, Paddington Station and Regents Canal.

Kensal Green Cemetery is the first of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries in London.

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Architects who are buried at Kensal Green include Decimus Burton, Philip Charles Hardwick, John Shaw Jr.

Cemetery directors and The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery have lobbied the Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage for funding to help preserve historical monuments at the site.

Originally part of one of the 8 manors within the district of Willesden, Kensal Green is first mentioned in 1253, translating from old English meaning the King's Holt.

In 1832 Kensal Green Cemetery was incorporated by Act of Parliament and opened in January 1833.

The college donated lands on which to build Kensal Green Rise Reading Room, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, in 1897.

Developments of the streets around Kensal Green Rise railway station date from the last 10 years of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th.

The ground which was later renamed the Kensal Green Rise Athletic Stadium hosted cycling and athletics competitions before being turned over to housing in the 1920s.

Kensal Green boasted the Electric Pavilion Cinema which opened in November 1914 and was located on the corner of Chamberlayne Road and Bannister Road.

Kensal Green ward has the highest Latin American population in London.