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Kensington Gore
Kensington Road. (SW7) Originally called Kyngsgore-firstly, because it belonged to the king; and secondly from its peculiar shape, gore, an old English word, meaning a "narrow slip of land," according to old glossaries. (Davis's Memorials of Knightsbridge, p. 131) |
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