22 Facts About Kentish Town

Kentish Town is an area of northwest London, England in the London Borough of Camden, immediately north of Camden Town.

Less than four miles north of central London, Kentish Town has good transport connections and is situated close to the open spaces of Hampstead Heath.

Name of Kentish Town is probably derived from Ken-ditch or Caen-ditch, meaning the "bed of a waterway" and is otherwise unrelated to the English county of Kent.

Kentish Town was originally a small settlement on the River Fleet .

Kentish Town was a prime site for development as the Kentish Town Road was a major route from London northwards.

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Network of streets in the north of Kentish Town was part of a large estate owned by St John's College, Cambridge.

Kentish Town Road contains one of London's many disused Tube stations.

Kentish Town was to see further modernisation in the post-World War II period.

Kentish Town is part of the Holborn and St Pancras seat which is held by Labour Party MP and leader Keir Starmer as of September 2021.

Kentish Town was an early base for the Social Democratic Party and in recent years the increasingly middle class population has returned large votes for the Green and Liberal Democrat parties.

In May 2006 the Liberal Democrats won two of the three Council seats in Kentish Town, strengthening this hold by taking the final seat in a by-election in November of the same year.

In May 2022, the ward of Kentish Town North elected two Labour Councillors Sylvia McNamara and James Slater.

Kentish Town South reelected Labour Councillors Georgia Gould, Meric Apac, and Jenny Headlam-Wells.

The 1993 comedy Bad Behaviour, featuring Stephen Rea and Sinead Cusack, was set in Kentish Town and includes scenes set in several local streets and the Owl Bookshop.

Kentish Town was used as the location for the BBC comedy series Gimme Gimme Gimme with its main protagonists Tom and Linda living with their ex-prostitute landlord and upstairs neighbour Beryl at the fictional and suggestively named "69 Paradise Passage".

Anglican Parish Church of St John Kentish Town, now known as "Christs Apostolic Church", was used by Only Fools and Horses as the backdrop exterior of the Church where Damien was christened.

Kentish Town Community Centre is a community centre, created in 2004, to provide meeting spaces and activities for local residents of all ages.

Kentish Town is home to The Forum, during the 1950s a cinema, and now a live music venue.

Spring 2014 saw Kentish Town to get its first speak easy, 1920s style hidden bar, when Knowhere Special opened its doors next to Kentish Town station.

Largest municipal building in Kentish Town is the St Pancras public baths, opened in 1903, designed by Thomas W Aldwinckle.

Kentish Town generally includes the areas to the west, around Queens Crescent and to the east around Torriano.

Kentish Town has a range of transport connections: a mainline railway station that is served by Thameslink along with an interchange to the London Underground; Underground stations, overground connection and multiple bus routes with the majority going into or around Central London.