Kensington, Dunedin

Kensington is a small suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin, nestled to the south of a hilly spur between the central city and the major suburb of South Dunedin, some 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) to the south of the city centre. The suburb was named for the leafy London suburb, possibly by John Hyde Harris, who subdivided the area in the 1860s.^[1]

Kensington is located on and around King Edward Street, close to the point at which it becomes

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The lower slopes of Montecillo Ridge were at one time the site of "Hillside", the home of Dunedin city's founding father Captain William Cargill. Though the house is long gone, its name lives on in that of South Dunedin's Hillside Road.

Kensington is largely separated from South Dunedin by an overbridge and railway embankment carrying the

connecting the suburb with the highway. This flyover separates Kensington into two distinct parts, a light industrial zone to the south of the flyover, and a residential zone to the north, at the foot of the ridge.

A notable feature of Kensington is the city's army drill hall, located in Bridgman Street immediately to the south of State Highway 1.^[4]

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