Kennington is a suburb

Suburb

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 of Ashford

Ashford, Kent

Ashford is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the Great Stour river, the M20 motorway, and the South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most...

 in Kent

Kent

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, England

England

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. It is about a mile northeast of the town centre and north of the M20 motorway, and contains the 12th century church, St Mary's. The main A28 Canterbury Road and A251 Faversham Road run through the village. In recent years the village has expanded with the building of new housing estates in the Little Burton and Towers View areas.

The Great Stour river

River Stour, Kent

The River Stour is the river in Kent, England that flows into the English Channel at Pegwell Bay. Above Plucks Gutter, where the Little Stour joins it, the river is normally known as the Great Stour. The upper section of the river, above its confluence with the East Stour at Ashford is sometimes...

 and the Kennington stream

Kennington Stream

Kennington Stream is a tributary of the Great Stour river in Ashford, Kent, England.The stream runs from its source near Kennington, 2.3 kilometres, past Penlee Point to the Great Stour, joining adjacent to the M20 motorway. -References:...

 run through the area.

Kennington is also home to 1st Kennington Scout group, a long running scout group that includes all factions of the Scouting association; Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers aka big cubs, and a highly successful branch of Network, dubbed 'The Roosters', featuring local minor celebrity 'Little' John Sheret.
Kennington has four pubs, The Old Mill, Mill Lane, The Pilgrims Rest, The Rose Inn and The Phesant.

The current councillor for the Kennington Ward is Cllr. P. Sims (Ashford Independents)).

Schools

There is one secondary school in the village, The Towers School

The Towers School

The Towers School and Sixth Form Centre is a comprehensive school in Faversham Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent. The school has around 1400 students, with a further 400 in sixth form...

, with a local junior school, Kennington C of E Primary School, and an infants school, Downs View Infants school. Since the county still operates a grammar school system, those who pass the Kent Test (which replaced the 11+) are given the opportunity to attend the grammar school in Ashford, The Norton Knatchbull School

The Norton Knatchbull School

The Norton Knatchbull School is a grammar school for boys located in Ashford, Kent, England. Girls are accepted into the Sixth Form. As of 2008, the school serves more than one thousand students aged 11 to 18.- History :...

 or Highworth Grammar School

Demography

Kennington compared
2001 UK Census	Kennington	Ashford district	England
Population	2,321	102,661	49,138,831
Foreign born	6.9%	5.5%	9.2%
White	96.3%	97.6%	90.9%
Asian	1.6%	0.9%	4.6%
Black	0.5%	0.4%	2.3%
Christian	79.5%	76.5%	71.7%
Muslim	0.6%	0.6%	3.1%
Hindu	0.7%	0.3%	1.1%
No religion	10.3%	14.6%	14.6%
Unemployed	1.9%	2.4%	3.3%
Retired	13.4%	13.8%	13.5%

As of the 2001 UK census, the Kennington electoral ward had a population of 2,321. The ethnicity was 96.3% white, 1.1% mixed race, 1.6% Asian, 0.5% black and 0.5% other. The place of birth of residents was 93.1% United Kingdom, 0.6% Republic of Ireland, 1.9% other Western European countries, and 4.4% elsewhere. Religion was recorded as 79.5% Christian, 0.2% Buddhist, 0.7% Hindu, 0.2% Sikh, 0.1% Jewish, and 0.6% Muslim. 10.3% were recorded as having no religion, 0.3% had an alternative religion and 8.2% did not state their religion.

The economic activity of residents aged 16–74 was 43.3% in full-time employment, 14% in part-time employment, 10.2% self-employed, 1.9% unemployed, 3.6% students with jobs, 4.9% students without jobs, 13.4% retired, 4.7% looking after home or family, 2.6% permanently sick or disabled and 1.5% economically inactive for other reasons.
The industry of employment of residents was 16.1% retail, 13.8% manufacturing, 7.8% construction, 12.1% real estate, 10.9% health and social work, 8.4% education, 8% transport and communications, 6.6% public administration, 5.7% hotels and restaurants, 5% finance, 1.1% agriculture and 4.5% other. Compared with national figures, the ward had a relatively high proportion of workers in hotels and restaurants, and a relatively low proportion in agriculture. Of the ward's residents aged 16–74, 21.6% had a higher education

Higher education

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qualification or the equivalent, compared with 19.9% nationwide.