Oval is an area in south London, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is part of Kennington near

The Oval The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, located in the borough of Lambeth, in south London. The Oval has been the home ground of Surrey County Cricket Club since ...

cricket ground, situated 2.1 miles (3.38 km) to the south-east of Charing Cross. Oval straddles the border of south-west London and south-east London, and is where the postcode SE11 converges with the postcodes SW8 and SW9. Oval is within the borough constituency of

Vauxhall Vauxhall ( ) is a district in South West London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. Vauxhall was part of Surrey until 1889 when the County of London was created. Named after a medieval manor, "Fox Hall", it became well known for ...

. The

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for the area is

Florence Eshalomi Florence Dauta Eshalomi ('' née'' Nosegbe; born 18 September 1980) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Vauxhall since 2019. She previously served as the Member of the London As ...

of the Labour Party.

History

The land here was, from the seventeenth century, used for a market garden. The name "Oval" emerged from a street layout which was originated in 1790 but never completely built. The Montpelier Cricket Club leased ten acres of land from the Duchy of Cornwall in 1844, and Surrey County Cricket Club was formed soon thereafter at a meeting at the Horns Tavern (since demolished) on

Kennington Park Road Kennington Park Road is a main road in south-east London, England, and is part of the A3 trunk road. It runs from Newington Butts at its Y-junction with Kennington Lane, south-west to the Oval, where the A3 continues as Clapham Road, towards ...

Demography

Oval ward is in the Vauxhall parliamentary constituency and is one of four wards in the borough's

north Lambeth Lambeth () is a district in South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth, historically in the County of Surrey. It is situated south of Charing Cross. The population of the London Borough of Lambeth was 303,086 in 2011. The area ...

division. It includes part of Kennington and some of the

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. In 2001, the National Census recorded a population of 11,983 for Oval.

Lambeth council elections

At the Lambeth Council elections, 2010 residents of Oval ward elected two Labour Party Councillors and one

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Councillor. In the 2014 and 2018 Lambeth Council elections residents returned four Labour councillors, Jack Hopkins, Claire Holland, Jane Edbrooke (2014) and Philip Normal (2018).

Transport

The nearest tube stations are

Oval An oval () is a closed curve in a plane which resembles the outline of an egg. The term is not very specific, but in some areas (projective geometry, technical drawing, etc.) it is given a more precise definition, which may include either one ...

, Kennington, Stockwell and

Vauxhall station Vauxhall (, ) is a National Rail, London Underground and London Buses interchange station in central London. It is at the Vauxhall Cross road junction opposite the southern approach to Vauxhall Bridge over the River Thames in the district of ...

Nearest places

References

External links

Lambeth Council profile for the wardLambeth Council map of the wardOval ward results on Lambeth websiteLib Dem Councillor's blogOval Labour blogcensus information
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