From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kennington, Kent
Kennington, Kent
Coordinates: 51°10′03″N 0°53′30″E / 51.1674°N 0.8918°E / of Network, dubbed ’The Roosters’, featuring local minor
51.1674; 0.8918 celebrity ’Little’ John Sheret. Kennington has four pubs,
Kennington The Old Mill, Mill Lane, The Pilgrims Rest, The Rose Inn
and The Phesant.
The current councillor for the Kennington Ward is
Cllr. P. Sims (Ashford Independents)).
Schools
There is one secondary school in the village, The Towers
School, with a local junior school, Kennington C of E Pri-
mary School, and an infants school, Downs View Infants
school. Since the county still operates a grammar school
system, those who pass the Kent Test (which replaced the
Kennington
11+) are given the opportunity to attend the grammar
school in Ashford, The Norton Knatchbull School or
Kennington shown within Kent Highworth Grammar School [2]
Population 2,400 (2005)[1]
OS grid reference TR021449 Demography
District Ashford As of the 2001 UK census, the Kennington electoral ward
Shire county Kent had a population of 2,321. The ethnicity was 96.3% white,
Region South East 1.1% mixed race, 1.6% Asian, 0.5% black and 0.5% other.
Country England
The place of birth of residents was 93.1% United King-
Sovereign state United Kingdom
dom, 0.6% Republic of Ireland, 1.9% other Western Euro-
Post town TONBRIDGE pean countries, and 4.4% elsewhere. Religion was record-
Postcode district TN24, TN25 ed as 79.5% Christian, 0.2% Buddhist, 0.7% Hindu, 0.2%
Dialling code 01233 Sikh, 0.1% Jewish, and 0.6% Muslim. 10.3% were recorded
Police Kent as having no religion, 0.3% had an alternative religion
Fire Kent and 8.2% did not state their religion.[3]
Ambulance South East Coast The economic activity of residents aged 16–74 was
43.3% in full-time employment, 14% in part-time employ-
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Ashford
ment, 10.2% self-employed, 1.9% unemployed, 3.6% stu-
dents with jobs, 4.9% students without jobs, 13.4% re-
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tired, 4.7% looking after home or family, 2.6% perma-
nently sick or disabled and 1.5% economically inactive
Kennington is a suburb of Ashford in Kent, England. It
for other reasons. The industry of employment of resi-
is about a mile northeast of the town centre and north
dents was 16.1% retail, 13.8% manufacturing, 7.8% con-
of the M20 motorway, and contains the 12th century
struction, 12.1% real estate, 10.9% health and social work,
church, St Mary’s. The main A28 Canterbury Road and
8.4% education, 8% transport and communications, 6.6%
A251 Faversham Road run through the village. In recent
public administration, 5.7% hotels and restaurants, 5% fi-
years the village has expanded with the building of new
nance, 1.1% agriculture and 4.5% other. Compared with
housing estates in the Little Burton and Towers View ar-
national figures, the ward had a relatively high propor-
eas.
tion of workers in hotels and restaurants, and a relatively
The Great Stour river and the Kennington stream run
low proportion in agriculture. Of the ward’s residents
through the area.
aged 16–74, 21.6% had a higher education qualification or
Kennington is also home to 1st Kennington Scout
the equivalent, compared with 19.9% nationwide.[3]
group, a long running scout group that includes all fac-
tions of the Scouting association; Beavers, Cubs, Scouts,
Explorers aka big cubs, and a highly successful branch
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kennington, Kent
References [2]
[3]
Kent Schools
^ "Neighbourhood Statistics". Statistics.gov.uk.
[1] "2005 Ward Level Population Estimates" (PDF). http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/
Kent County Council. September 2006. dissemination/
http://www.kent.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/E503169D- LeadDatasetList.do?a=3&b=5945430&c=Kennington&d=14&g=4568
C06B-498F-BD0A-678EE22B4D37/6841/sae108.pdf. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
Retrieved 2007-08-20.
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