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Places to stay in Kennington
The village of Kennington lies on a long narrow strip of land between Bagley Wood to the west and the River Thames water meadows to the east. The Anglo - Saxon people who were moving through this part of the country in the fifth and sixth centuries must have regarded the site as ideal for a settlement. The Thames was a convenient water-way, the soil in some parts a rich loam with patches of sand and clay was fertile, an outcrop of limestone provided dry foundations/good building material, Bagley Wood offered timber as fuel and pannage for pigs and was rich in game and the nearby river and the adjacent water meadows were well stocked with fish and water-fowl.
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