North Kensington

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| map_type = Greater London

| region = London

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| official_name = North Kensington

| london_borough = Kensington and Chelsea, Brent, Westminster

| constituency_westminster = Kensington and Bayswater

| post_town = LONDON

| postcode_district = W10

| postcode_area = W

| postcode_district1 = NW10

| postcode_area1 = NW

| dial_code = 020

| os_grid_reference = TQ255795

| static_image_name = Golborne Road looking towards Trellick Tower 7 June 2011.jpg

| static_image_caption = Trellick Tower from Golborne Road

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North Kensington is an area of west and northwest London. It is north of Notting Hill and south of Kensal Green predominately in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and partly in the London Borough of Brent and City of Westminster. The names North Kensington and Ladbroke Grove describe the same area.

North Kensington is where most of the violence of the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 occurred, and where the Notting Hill Carnival started. Ladbroke Grove tube station was called Notting Hill from its opening in 1864 until 1880, and Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove between then and 1919, when it was renamed Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington). It acquired its current name in 1938. The area was also once served by St. Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs railway station, until it closed in 1940.{{cite web|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/st_quintin_park/index1.shtml|title=Disused Stations: St. Quintin Park & Wormwood Scrubbs Station (2nd site)|website=Disused-stations.org.uk|access-date=19 December 2017}}

North Kensington was once known for its slum housing, but housing prices have now risen and the area on the whole is considered exclusive and upmarket, although expensive residences are interspersed with lower-income areas like the Lancaster West Estate.

Kensal Green, Kensal Town, Ladbroke Grove, Latimer Road and the Queens Park Estate are all considered by locals to be part of the wider North Kensington area.{{By whom|date=July 2024}}{{Citation needed|date=July 2024|reason=}}

Crossrail

Just to the east of the Old Oak Common site, Kensington and Chelsea Council has been pushing for a station at North Kensington/Kensal{{cite web |url= http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/newsroom/councilstatements/crossrailstation.aspx |title= The case for Kensal crossrail |publisher= Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |date= n.d. |access-date= 26 June 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110515030212/http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/newsroom/councilstatements/crossrailstation.aspx |archive-date= 15 May 2011 |url-status= dead }} off Ladbroke Grove and Canal Way, as a turn-back facility will have to be built in the area anyway. Siting it at Kensal Green, rather than next to Paddington itself, would provide a new station to regenerate the area.{{Cite press release |url= http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/pressrelease/pressreleasePage.aspx?id=3387 |title= Case for a Crossrail station gains momentum |date=1 July 2010 |publisher= Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea}}{{Cite news |url= http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/study-to-explore-adding-crossrail-station-at-kensal-rise/5004540.article |title= Study to explore adding Crossrail station at Kensal Rise |date =24 August 2010 |work=Building Design |first= Ruth |last= Bloomfield |location= London}}{{cite web |url= https://www.londonreconnections.com/2010/crossrail-at-kensal-rise-back-on-the-cards/ |title=Crossrail at Kensal Rise back on the cards? |publisher=London Reconnections (blog) |date= 27 August 2010}} Amongst the general public there is a huge amount of support for the project and Mayor Boris Johnson stated that a station would be added if it did not increase Crossrail's overall cost; in response, Kensington and Chelsea Council agreed to underwrite the projected £33 million cost of a Crossrail station, which was received very well by the residents of the borough.{{cite news |url= http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23935561-council-to-pay-for-crossrail-station.do |title= Council to pay for Crossrail station |work= London Evening Standard |date= 25 March 2011 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120913115649/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23935561-council-to-pay-for-crossrail-station.do |archive-date= 13 September 2012 |df= dmy-all }} TfL is conducting a feasibility study on the station and the project is backed by National Grid, retailers Sainsbury's and Cath Kidston, and Jenny Jones (Green Party member of the London Assembly).[http://www.regen.net/Transport/article/1070093/kensal-crossrail-station-transform-area-says-deputy-mayor/ Kensal Crossrail station would 'transform' the area, says deputy mayor]. Regeneration + Renewal. 16 May 2011.

Grenfell Tower fire

File:Tower blocks from Silchester Road W10 - geograph.org.uk - 1485104.jpg

Grenfell Tower on the Lancaster West Estate in North Kensington was destroyed by fire in the early hours of 14 June 2017.{{cite news|last1=Malkin|first1=Bonnie|last2=Siddique|first2=Haroon|title=What we know so far about the London tower block fire|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/14/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-london-tower-block-fire|access-date=14 June 2017|publisher=Guardian|date=14 June 2017}} The fire killed 72 people and was the subject of a public inquiry.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44190742 Grenfell Tower: Inquiry opens with tribute to stillborn baby]. BBC.

Notable residents and natives

Joss Ackland, actor, was born in North Kensington on 29 February 1928.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/i-remember-the-smell-of-black-dusty-sacks-of-coal-where-i-grew-up-1237882.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/i-remember-the-smell-of-black-dusty-sacks-of-coal-where-i-grew-up-1237882.html |archive-date=21 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title='I remember the smell of black, dusty sacks of coal'; WHERE I GREW UP |date=6 September 1997 |newspaper=The Independent | author=Joss Ackland |accessdate=13 February 2022}}
David Cameron, former Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, resides in North Kensington.{{cite web|url=http://news.sky.com/story/removal-men-at-no-10-but-where-will-pm-go-10499733|title=Removal Men At No 10 - But Where Will PM Go?|website=News.sky.com|access-date=19 December 2017}}
Nick Clarke, radio and television presenter and journalist, lived and died in North Kensington.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nick-clarke-425561.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nick-clarke-425561.html |archive-date=21 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Nick Clarke|date=24 November 2006|website=Independent.co.uk|access-date=19 December 2017}}
Michael Day, paleoanthrolopolgist{{Cite journal|last=Wood|first=Bernard|date=2018|title=Michael Herbert Day (1927–2018)|journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|language=en|volume=167|issue=4|pages=697–700|doi=10.1002/ajpa.23693|pmid=30365163|s2cid=53098346|issn=1096-8644}}
Danny Dichio, footballer, grew up in North Kensington.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024|reason=No mention in linked article}}
Alan Johnson (born 1950), British Labour Party politician and former Home Secretary, author of the autobiography This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood,{{cite news |title=This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/11/this-boy-alan-johnson-review|first=Chris|last=Mullin|date=11 May 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=9 June 2013}} lived in Southam Street in North Kensington as a child.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024|reason=No mention in linked article}}
Martin Lewis, financial journalist, resides in North Kensington.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024|reason=No mention in linked article}}
Alan Mullery, footballer, was born in Notting Hill on 23 November 1941.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024|reason=No mention in linked article}}
John Murray, Middlesex and England wicketkeeper, was born in North Kensington on 1 April 1935.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024|reason=No mention in linked article}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928084342/http://www.nottinghillnonsense.co.uk/ Notting Hill Nonsense], a website about life in North Kensington in 2007.
[http://www.golbornelife.co.uk/ Golborne Life], the community website for the Golborne Road area of North Kensington

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Category:Districts of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Category:Notting Hill