Avonmore Road
West Kensington, formerly North End, is an area in the ancient parish of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of Charing Cross. It covers most of the London postal area of W14, including the area around Barons Court tube station, and is defined as the area between Lillie Road and Hammersmith Road to the west, Fulham Palace Road to the south, Hammersmith to the north and West Brompton and Earl's Court to the east. The area is bisected by the major London artery the A4, locally known as the Talgarth Road. Its main local thoroughfare is the North End Road. It is predominantly a dense residential area with the Queen's Club in its midst and is bordered by the Lillie Bridge railway depot, the now defunct Earls Court Exhibition Centre site, Olympia Exhibition Centre and the commercial centres at Fulham and Hammersmith Broadway. Name "West Kensington" is an early marketing construct, a ploy by two Victorian developers who fo ...
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Hammersmith (UK Parliament Constituency)
Hammersmith is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament. It is currently represented by Andy Slaughter, a member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, who has represented the seat since its recreation in 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010. For the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer, it is considered a borough constituency, and as with all constituencies, elects one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament using the First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post system. Boundaries 1885–1918 1885–1918: The parishes of St Peter and St Paul, Hammersmith. The parliamentary borough of Hammersmith was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and consisted of the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Hammersmith (in Middlesex only until 1889 when it fell w ...
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