Kentish Town, NW5

Kentish Town is an area of north London in the London Borough of Camden.

Today Kentish Town is a busy shopping and business area. It offers libraries, gyms and other entertainments to visitors and its community. Its proximity to Camden Town is ideal for further entertainment and a wider range of shops. In August 2006 residents welcomed noted wine merchants Oddbins to the high street.

Kentish Town is a haven for independent shops. A survey by the local Green Party found that of 87 shops on the high street, 53 were still independently owned[1]. The opening of the Earth whole foods shop in 2006 confirms that this spirit continues despite the presence of several supermarkets, including a Somerfields, Iceland, Co-op, and more recently a Tesco Metro.

Kentish Town has always been noted for its pubs and bars, including the Bull and Gate music pub which featured early performances by Blur, Suede, PJ Harvey, Ash, Keane, The Libertines, Muse, Manic Street Preachers, and Coldplay.

Kentish Town is also home to The Forum, a popular live music venue.

One of London's most famous nudist public baths, Rio's, is in Kentish Town.

Many of the old buildings remain, albeit hidden behind the facades of modern shops or neglected, and it is still possible to get a good impression of Kentish Town's heritage in present-day NW5.


Kentish Town graffitiFamous residents of Kentish Town include Dekay, underground rapper, Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian newspaper; Tessa Jowell, Olympics Minister, Gareth Peirce, solicitor; Bert Jansch, folk musician; Jon Snow, TV journalist; Patricia Hewitt former Secretary of State for Health; Roger Lloyd Pack, actor; Bill Nighy, actor; Giles Coren, restaurant critic,Pete Stanley, famous banjo player and Noel Fielding, comedian (with his girlfriend, Dee Plume, a singer in the band Robots in Disguise).

Torriano Avenue, dating back to 1848, is a popular Kentish Town street being home to Pete Stanley, one of the country's best-known bluegrass banjo players, Bill Nighy the world-famous actor, The Torriano Poets, a beacon of culture where local poets have met for over 20 years and still hold weekly public poetry readings on Sunday evenings, and the second London branch of Flavours, a specialist delicatessen selling high quality home-baked foods, refreshments and finest quality deli ingredients. The street is also home to two pubs, one being an 1850s hostelry the Leighton Arms, the other The Torriano, which was for many years an old-fashioned community off-licence, and has retained a welcoming "living room" feel since its conversion.

Some local residents have recently nicknamed Torriano Avenue "Torrination Street" due to its local pub The Torriano, hairdressers, corner shop and diverse characters that live there.

Nearby Torriano Cottages is an unbarred enclave of 15 Victorian cottages with some recent architecturally interesting additions that still manages to retain an extraordinary rural atmosphere for a central London neighbourhood.

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