Kensington Road is a section of road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster, London, England, forming part of the A315. It runs along the south edge of Kensington Gardens. To the west it becomes Kensington High Street, to the east it becomes Kensington Gore. To the north is Kensington Palace and to the south is Palace Gate.
Kensington Road houses one of the remaining thirteen Cabmen's Shelters used by London's taxi drivers as a place to buy food and (non-alcoholic) drink.
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“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piecemeal
of a sort of emotional anemia.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
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