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Despite the similar spelling, Kentish Town NW5 is not related to Kent county. The name most likely derives from Ken-ditch or Caen-ditch. The first mention of the area comes from 1207. Back then, Kentish Town was known as Kentisston.
Philosopher Karl Marx lived here in the 19th century. Writer George Orwell is another famous resident. Actor Tom Hiddleston, actor Charles Dance, writer Margaret Forster, actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, TV presenter Phil Clifton, and comedian Lucy Porter are other notable people associated with the area.
Kentish Town NW5 was a filming location for About a Boy movie, Only Fools and Horses sitcom, Venus comedy drama, 1959 British crime drama Sapphire, and the BBC comedy series Gimme Gimme Gimme.
Kentish Town is a northwest London district situated in the Camden borough, directly north of Camden Town. Other districts near the area are Belsize and Hampstead (to the west), Holloway and Tufnell Park (to the east) Archway and Dartmouth Park (to the northeast), Barnsbury (to the southeast), Highgate (to the north), and Chalk Farm (to the south).
The area has a wide variety of access to transport network such as the Camden Road and Kentish Town West overground stations, the London Underground station, a central railway station, and numerous bus services with routes that go in and around Central London.