A small section of Kennington Road lies in the SE1 postal area.
Kennington Road runs south from Westminster Bridge Road towards Kennington Park. It was created in 1751 by the Turnpike Trustees of Surrey, Sussex and Kent.
With the growing popularity of Brighton as a resort, it became part of the route used by the Prince Regent (George IV) on his excursions there.
In the late nineteenth century, the Lincoln Tower was built by Christopher Newman Hall in memory of Abraham Lincoln close to the junction with Westminster Bridge Road. The modernist Christ Church and Upton Chapel replaced Newman Hall’s Victorian gothic chapel, destroyed during the Second World War.