KENNINGTON, a village and a parish in East Ashford district, Kent. The village stands near the Ashford and Canterbury railway and the river Stour, 2 miles NNE of Ashford; and has a post office, of the name of Kennington-Street, under Ashford, and a fair on 5 July. The parish comprises 1, 380 acres. Real property, £3, 948. Pop., 567. Houses, 114. The property is divided among a few. There are brick and tile works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £211.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church consists of nave and three chancels, with tower and small beacon turret: and is good. There is a free school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))