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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is an Inner London borough with royal status.

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is an Inner London borough with royal status. It is the smallest borough in London and the second smallest district in England; it is one of the most densely populated administrative regions in the United Kingdom. It includes affluent areas such as Notting Hill, Kensington, South Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 19 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 39 km · London Luton (LTN), 43 km
  • Luton, Luton → Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £5–6
  • London, Essex → Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
    5 km · quickest by road, 27 min · £0.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMore entertainment than transport really, rickshaws run in Soho and the surrounding areas.

From Wikivoyage: London/Soho, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    119 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    313 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    402 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    559 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    594 km

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Around it

Next door to Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is 5 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.