Kennington, Oxfordshire

Kennington
Present (right) and former (left) St Swithun's parish churches
Kennington is located in Oxfordshire
Kennington
Kennington
Location within Oxfordshire
Population4,076 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSP5202
Civil parish
  • Kennington
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townOxford
Postcode districtOX1
Dialling code01865
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteKennington Online
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°43′01″N 1°15′00″W / 51.717°N 1.250°W / 51.717; -1.250

Kennington is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, just south of Oxford. The village occupies a narrow stretch of land between the River Thames and the A34 dual carriageway. It was in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

Kennington was partly in South Hinksey parish and partly in Radley parish until 1936, when a new Kennington civil parish was constituted. Apart from the village, most of Kennington civil parish is wooded, including all of Bagley Wood and West Wood to the west of the village.

  1. ^ "Area: Kennington CP (Parish): Parish Headcounts". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 September 2018.