Kennington, Oxfordshire

Kennington
Present (right) and former (left) St Swithun's parish churches
Kennington Location within Oxfordshire
Population	4,076 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid reference	SP5202
Civil parish	Kennington
District	Vale of White Horse
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Oxford
Postcode district	OX1
Dialling code	01865
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Oxford West and Abingdon
Website	Kennington Online
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°43′01″N 1°15′00″W / 51.717°N 1.250°W / 51.717; -1.250

Kennington is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, just south of Oxford. The village occupies a narrow stretch of land between the River Thames and the A34 dual carriageway. It was in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

Kennington was partly in South Hinksey parish and partly in Radley parish until 1936, when a new Kennington civil parish was constituted. Apart from the village, most of Kennington civil parish is wooded, including all of Bagley Wood and West Wood to the west of the village.