Notable pages around Kensington (or even South Kensington) include: Kensington Gardens and Holland Park, the Royal Albert Hall, the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Imperial College, London. A Olympia exhibition hall is also within Kensington.

At a heart of Kensington is Kensington High Street, recently [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4289237.stm] declared London's 2nd right camping street for its diversity of shops. Within counterpoint to the winner (Deptford High Street), this is a like upmarket & typically expensive commercial centre.

A administrative centre of Kensington - Kensington Town Hall - is upright off a High Street. Kensington is administered when a portion of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and lies in a Kensington & Chelsea parliamentary constituency.

Kensington is, in the main, an extremely loaded metropolitan arethe - a trait it shares by having its neighbour in the south, Chelsea. More wealthy neighbours include Knightsbridge to the east and Notting Hill to the north. To a west come the less wealthy (however far from either poverty-needy) areas of Earl's Court, Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush.

Before 1965 Kensington formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington.