Kensal Green

Worth seeing in and around Kensal Green

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium

   Loftus Road, currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, West London, Greater London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers Football Club, with a capacity of 18,439. In 1981, it became the first stadium in British professional football to have an artificial pitch of Omniturf installed.

   2.5 km · football stadium in London · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Freud Museum London

   The Freud Museum in London is a museum dedicated to Sigmund Freud, located in the house where Freud lived with his family during the last year of his life. In 1938, after escaping Nazi annexation of Austria he came to London via Paris and stayed for a short while at 39 Elsworthy Road before moving to 20 Maresfield Gardens, where the museum is situated.

   3.8 km · historic house museum in London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Design Museum

   The Design Museum in Kensington, London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award.

   3.8 km · art museum in London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

   The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, commonly shortened to Central, is a drama school in London, England. It was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906 as the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students.

   3.8 km · public drama school and conservatoire at the University of London · Wikipedia
5. 05
   BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London

   BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is a Hindu temple in Neasden, London, England. Built entirely using traditional methods and materials, the Swaminarayan mandir has been described as being Britain's first authentic Hindu temple.

   3.2 km · Hindu temple · Wikipedia
6. 06
   The Rolling Bridge

   The Rolling Bridge is a kinetic sculpture, and a unique type of curling moveable bridge, completed in 2004 as part of the Grand Union Canal office and retail development project at Paddington Basin, London. The bridge is scheduled to open every Wednesday and Friday at noon, and every Saturday at 2 pm.

   3.7 km · bridge in London · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Kensal Green Cemetery

   Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in the Kensal Green area of North Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London, England. Inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, it was founded by the barrister George Frederick Carden.

   200 m · cemetery in Kensal Green, in the west of London, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Trellick Tower

   Trellick Tower is a Grade II* listed tower block on the Cheltenham Estate in Kensal Town, London. Opened in 1972, it was commissioned by the Greater London Council and designed in the Brutalist style by architect Ernő Goldfinger.

   1.5 km · Tower block in the Brutalist style in Kensal Town, London · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kensal Green

Airports

London Heathrow (LHR), 18 km · London Luton (LTN), 39 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 43 km

Stations

London Paddington station, 3.6 km · Queensway tube station, 3.4 km · Notting Hill Gate tube station, 3.1 km · Bayswater tube station, 3.3 km · Goldhawk Road tube station, 3.2 km

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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Kensal Green

  156 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £17–22
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