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Rh KENNYTHORPE. 387 KENSWORTH. Norman style, and stands in the village. There is also a Presbyterian church. Auchtcnnairnie, Kingsdalo, and Newtowndale are the chief residences. The village
 * Kited in the S. part of the parish, on tho road from

Dysart to Cores. It is lighted with gas, and enjoys a feir amount of trade. It tukes its name from its position nt the head of a ravine or glen. Weaving is carried on pretty extensively. There are in the parish two grain- mills, a saw and spinning mills. The Levcn railway has a station in the neighbourhood. Maiden Castle is supposed to have been a British fort. KENNYTHORPE, a tnsltp. in tho par. of Langton, wap. of Buckrose, East Riding co. York, 3 miles E. of Malton. KKNRICK CHRISTIONYDD, a tnshp. in the par. of Ruabon, hund. of Bromfield, co. Denbigh. K KXRY, a bar. in the co. Limerick, prov. of Munster, Ireland. Its boundaries arc the Shannon on the N., the river JIaig on the E., Lower Connello on tho S., and Deel on tho V. It is 7 miles long, and its greatest breadth is over G miles. The surface is generally flat, excepting in tho S. The bar. contains tho pars, of Ardcanny, Chapol-ltusscll, Iveruss, and Kildimo, with part of t'h(! par. of Adare. KENSALL GREEN, a district par. in the Ken- logton div. of the hund. of Ossulstone, co. Middlesex, 3 milcM from Hyde Park corner, and o N.W. of St. Paul's, London. It is a station on the North London railway. At this point the West London branch line turns off from the North- Western railway. Many new villas and streets have recently been built. Tho living is a perpet. cur.* in the dice, of London, val. 300, in tho patron, of tho bishop. The church is a new struc- ture, dedicated to gt. John. There arc National and ragged schools, educating between 600 and 700 children. Kensall Green cemetery, comprising an area of about 60 acres, in situated here, and is the burial-place of iho Duke of Sussex, Princess Sophia, Scott's daughters Anne and Sophia, Thackeray, Leech, and many distin- guished persons. Here is a Roman Catholic cemetery. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. KENSINGTON, a div. of tho hund. of Ossulstone, oo. Middlesex, contains the pars, of Acton, Chelsea, Chiswick, Ealing, 1'ulham, Hammersmith, Kensington, Twyford Abbey, and Willcsden, comprising about 19,220 acres. KENSINGTON, a par. and populous suburban dis- trict of London, in tho Kensington div. of the hund. of Ossulstone, co. Middlesex, 4 miles W.S.W. of St. Paul's, London. It includes the populous neighbourhoods of Bromplon, Earl's Court, Norland, Netting Hill, with parts of Little Chelsea, and Kcnsall Green. It was anciently an inconsiderable village, and is mentioned in Domesday Survey as Chenesilune, at which time it was pos- sessed by Aubrey de Vere. Foxes were hunted here in the end of the 18th century. In the 16th and 17th centuries several mansions were erected, including Holland House, built by Kir Walter Cope, and enlarged by Inigo Jones ; Campden, and recently burnt ; Hale House, once the residence of Oliver Cromwell ; and Kensington Palace, originally the seat of tho Finches, earls of Nottingham, ubsequently purchased by King William III., and converted into a royal palace. This building, which lands within the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, in uniformity of design, consisting of three angles of red brick, ornamented with quoins, columns, and cornices of stone. It contains an exten- sive suite of apartments, with staircase and ceilings by, and a mantlepiece by Rysbrach. The pictures have been moved to Hampton Court, and the Duke of Sussex's library of rare bibles, &c., sold. This palace ifl surromid'.-d by beautifully laid out grounds, by Wise, together comprising more than 3 miles in circuit, which are now thrown open to tho public on certain conditions. In ti. d and died Queen Mary, Queen Anne, and her husband, 1'rince George of Denmark, George II., and his queen, Caroline, who contributed to improve it, and the Duke of Sussex, whoso niece', Queen Victoija, was born in it in 1819. The other mansions are, Ken- sington House, once the seat of the Duke of Portsmouth, but afterwards a school ; Kensington Gore, formerly tho residence of Wilberforce, situated opposite tho site of the Great Exhibition building of 1851 ; and Villa Maria, the residence of Canning. The older part of Kensington consists of several ranges of well-built houses, stretching for a considerable distance along the Great Western road, with numerous streets branching off from the main road to the N. and S. The newer portion includes Kensington-square, St. Mary Abbots- terrace, Warwick-square, Addison-road, Notting-hill, Kensington Gravel Pits, and the ranges of building adjoining the Horticultural Societies' Gardens and the South Kensington Museum. Some portion of the parish is still in nursery and market gardens, but the greater portion is built over. It contains the station of the T division of the metropolitan police, a savings-bank, West Middlesex water-works, situated at Kensington Gravel Pits, tho London and Westminster cemetery, three lunatic asylums, and union poorhouso. There are several mineral springs, and amongst the red gravel yellow amber has been found. Detachments of the loot guards and of the Lancers are stationed hero in barracks. Tho Paddington and Kensington canals, and the West London and Great Western railways traverse the northern part of tho parish, the last passing through a slightly curved tunnel of 320 yards in length. In Kensington Gardens is a large sheet of water called the Basin. The illustrious Sir Isaac Newton resided hero for some years, and died in a house at Pitt's Buildings. Many other men of eminence, as Addison, Charles Fox, Sir P. Perceval, and Lord Chancellor Camdcn, were residents. Tho living is a vie.* united with the cur. of Christ Church and St. Paul's Temporary Church, in tho dioc. of London, val. 1,2-42, in the patron, of tho bishop. The mother church of St. Mary, or St. Mary Abbot, formerly belonged to Abingdon Abbey. It contains tombs of the Riches, Dr. Jortin, Goodall, tho physician, the Countess of Warwick, wife of the poet Addison, Dean Hodges, Lord Molesworth, the Ponsonbys, and George, son of the statesman Canning, with some lines by him as an epitaph on his son. In addition to the parish church, there are ten district churches St. Barnabas, Addison-road ; St. Philip's, Earl's Court; St. John's, Notting-hill; St. Peter's, Notting-hill ; All Saints', Nolting-hill ; St. James's, Nor- land ; St. Andrew's, Norland ; Holy Trinity, Brompton ; St. Mary's, West Brompton ; and St. Paul's, Onslow- square, the livings of all which are perpet. curs., varying in val. from 300 to 639. There is also a chapel-of- case at Brompton, and places of worship belonging to. tho Roman Catholics and several of tho denominations of Protestant Dissenters. The parochial charities pro- duce 577 per annum, of which a part was left by Oliver Cromwell, besides 18, the endowment of Meth- wold's almshouses. There are two proprietary schools, Pemble's school, built by Vanbrugh, and several National, infant, and other schools, besides charitable institutions of all kinds for relief of tho sick and poor. Kensington is a Poor-law Union and head of a superin- tendent registry, but belongs to Brompton New County Court district. KENSTONE, a tnshp. in tho par. of Hodnct, co. Salop, 5 miles E. of Wem. KENSWICK, an ext. par. place in the lower div. of the hund. of Oswaldslow, co. Worcester, 4 miles N.W. of Worcester. Here was formerly a chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist. KENSWORTH, a par. in the hund. of Dacorum, co. Herts, 4 miles S. of Dunstable, its post town and railway station, 1 N.W. of Markyate Street, and 5 W. of Luton. It is situated under Kensworth Hill, which is 904 feet' in height, and was given by Edward the Confessor to St. Paul's Cathedral. Tho land is chiefly arable, and the soil loamy, alternating with a strong red clay and mari. Tho tithes were commuted for land and corn- rents under an Enclosure Act in 1798. The living is a
 * <lcn House, erected by Baptist Hicks, Viscount
 * man, and Kent, with a flower garden by London,