West Kensington est un quartier de Londres localisé dans le district de Hammersmith et Fulham.
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West Kensington, formerly North End, is an area in the ancient parish of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England, 3.4 miles west of Charing Cross. It covers most of the London postal area of W14, including the area around Barons Court tube station, and is defined as the area between Lillie Road to the south, Fulham Palace Road to the west, Hammersmith Road to the north, and West Brompton and Earl's Court to the east. The area is bisected by the major London artery the A4, locally known as the Talgarth Road. Its main local thoroughfare is the North End Road.
It is predominantly a dense residential area with the Queen's Club in its midst and is bordered by the Lillie Bridge railway depot, the now defunct Earls Court Exhibition Centre site, Olympia Exhibition Centre and the commercial centres at Fulham and Hammersmith Broadway.
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West Kensington is a London Underground District line station in West Kensington. It is located on North End Road close to its junction with West Cromwell Road/Talgarth Road.
The station is between Earl's Court and Barons Court and is in London fare zone 2.
The station is situated in a cutting with the ticket office at street level.
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North End was, until the last quarter of the 19th-century, a scattered hamlet among the fields and market gardens, between Counter's Creek and Walham Green in the Parish of Fulham in the County of Middlesex.
In connection with the development of the Kensington Canal on the northern boundary of Fulham parish, Sir John Scott Lillie built the 'North End Brewery' complex in 1832. The attached public house was called the 'Lillie Arms' and had a frontage of 140 feet along the newly laid out road running from Lillie Bridge to North End Lane. According to Féret the landlady was a Miss Goslin. All that remains of North End in memory is the North End Road, Fulham. In the 1880s, the area became known as "West Kensington", at the request of developers Gibbs and Flew who were having trouble selling their newly built houses in a Fulham backwater.
West Kensington tube station on the Metropolitan District Railway, was originally called 'Fulham - North End'.
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Gwendwr Gardens is a small park in West Kensington, West London. In 1948, a plot of land was donated to the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham by the Gunter estate for a memorial to the victims of German air raids in the area, particularly the Operation Steinbock raid on the night of 20 February 1944.
The park contains a sunken area with a pond, lawns and a commemorative plaque.
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Ashfield House is a Transport for London building in West Kensington in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It contains West Ashfield, a staff training facility for the London Underground. It was opened in 2010 at a cost of £800,000.
The facility replaced one at White City opened in 1963 which in turn replaced the first Underground training centre at Lambeth North.
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