Good and lively vibe. The sun settles perfectly on the field, clean enough waste bins. Has a changing room also, a tennis court, dog area for playing.

Kennington park is one of the best parks to walk dogs, with two 2 enclosures and very large areas to play free and run. Has a toilet and a really nice café. I enjoy a lot every time I’m in this park!

Beautiful Park right in the middle of one of the most busiest boroughs in urban South London. The highlight for me was the Kennington Park Flower Garden. The yellow Achillias and the grasses there are stunning. Nice seating areas and quiet spaces to read. Overall 10/10 rating 🌳🌾🥀😉

Huge and recently refurbished children's play ground. Lots to do. Park run happens in the park every Sunday. A reasonable cafe on site.

Have visited many times, a good place to stroll around before a cricket match at the Oval. A popular Park for a variety of activities, today there were dog walkers,picnickers, joggers and sun bathers . There is a memorial to the many people who died in and air raid in 1940.

My local :) pretty small park, one thing I care about the sizes of parks is can I sprint across it under 30 seconds. Unfortunately, for Kennington Park I can! Still it's a great park for street workouts with a bunch of workout stations. A calisthenics practitioner would be delighted. Also, an amazing cafe in the park that does amazing pizzas in their wood-fired oven and great bread and cakes and pastries. And they make a great flat white! You can buy handmade honey made in the park at the shop behind the cafe. I wanted to mention this here as well so as to support their business. Great honey right at your doorstep, made at your doorstep :)

A very well kept park for everyone to appreciate. Plenty of open space, gorgeous large trees, tennis courts, walled garden, basketball court, cafe, outdoor gym area, beekeeping and so much more.

Kennington Park is a public park in Kennington, south London and lies between Kennington Park Road and St. Agnes Place. It was opened in 1854 on the site of what had been Kennington Common, where the Chartists gathered for their biggest "monster rally" on 10 April 1848. Soon after this demonstration the common was enclosed and, sponsored by the royal family, made into a public park. Kennington Common was a site of public executions until 1800 as well as being an area for public speaking. Some of the most illustrious orators to speak here were Methodist founders George Whitefield and John Wesley who is reputed to have attracted a crowd of 30,000. The common was one of the earliest London cricket venues and is known to have been used for top-class matches in 1724. Kennington Park hosts the first inner London community cricket ground, sponsored by Surrey County Cricket Club whose home, The Oval, is close to the park. Casual games of both cricket and football are regularly held in the park. In the 1970s, the old tradition of mass gatherings returned to the park which was host to the start of many significant marches to Parliament. Today, a number of commercial and community events are held in the park each year and recently the Flower Garden was restored with a Heritage Lottery grant. The Friends of Kennington Park, was founded in 2002 and provides a local forum for park issues as well as fundraising for improvements. 1854 Kennington Park opened and maintained by the Crown's Office of Works. 1859 Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens opened for the last time on the night of Monday, 25 July 1859. 1861 Two panelled gardens laid out by John Gibson on the west side to either side the lodge. 1861 A gymnasium erected (which became tennis courts before the children's playground moved there in 2006). 1861 Meeting of the Juvenile Temperance Society allowed in the summer. (PRO work 1/71) 1862 Felix Slade drinking water fountain designed by Charles Henry Driver. Slade donated this after feeling sorry for the local children who, after playing in the gymnasium, had been taking their refreshment from the cab horse trough. 1869 Sir Henry Doulton donates local artist George Tinworth's 'Fountain of Life'. 1874 Parish of St Agnes, Kennington Park founded. 1877 Church of St. Agnes, Kennington Park consecrated by the Lord Bishop of London. 1887 Kennington Park maintenance passed over to London's Metropolitan Board of Works. 1889 Kennington Park passed to London County Council that later became the Greater London Council, GLC, in 1965. 1896 A 7-year old Charlie Chaplin spent a day playing in the park after his mother discharged the family from the Lambeth Workhouse in desperation to see her children. After a day in the park and at a coffee-shop they returned to the workhouse to undergo the shameful admissions process again. 1897 An Arts & Crafts style refreshment house erected which is now a rare survival. 1898 Princess of Wales Theatre, designed by W. G. R. Sprague, opens at the height of the music hall era. (closed c. 1934 and site 'Compulsorily Purchased' for flats in 1949) The theatre had one of earliest air conditioning systems. 1899 The first all-night illuminated footpath through a public park.

Lovely park, there is a small garden full of flowers in spring and early summer. I enjoy the atmosphere for reading the book before my uni class start

I love this park! Such a great place to have a picnic or take children to play 🤍 Will definitely go back there again.

Good park, lots of space for running, playing tennis, and sun bathing. Also, there are benches where you can rest and chill for a while. If you love dogs then you'll love it here, and dogs of different shapes and sizes are running around here. It's a very green park with lots of shade. Highly recommended!

Nice Park to walk the dog. Has a separate small dog enclosure as well. Nice cafe. There’s a good workout area with pull Up and dip bars, abs bench. New kids playground just been out in. It’s a well looked after Park.

Beautiful corner of London greenery complete with fields, sculpted garden and bee sanctuary. Well worth a visit (and perhaps a small purchase of honey to support the local charity).

I have been here many times on my own and with good friends and used the Cafe. Lately dogs have been unsupervised and one terrorised two young girls chasing them and barking and the owner did nothing even when she was asked to recall her dog. This visit, me and my friend went to the cafe and ordered a hot chocolate and a black tea. I was surprised to receive my hot chocolate in a tea cup! Why! Had they run out of mugs. Also the amount of beverage compared to the price was ridiculous. Please Cafe, don't take your customers for fools.

HI PEOPLE I RECOMMEND THIS PARK BECAUSE IS BIG,GREEN ZONES,IF DO YOU HAVE A CHILDREN'S YOU CAN FIND A BIG NEW AREA ESPECAIK FOR ALL AGES

It's an extremely nice park with a play area! There is a small basketball court and it's a very nice place to walk your dog or just have a walk in general! I definitely reccomend this place and it also has a cafe with friendly staff and toilets.

Beautiful and calming, big open space, just make sure you don’t walk your dog on a weekday after 9pm. You will get locked in and may have to jump a fence or two.

This park is so great for a visit. It's well kept, the walled flower garden is so pretty and we lucked out as the bee garden was also open. We got to meet and see the bee keepers harvesting honey and bought some local honey and produce. What a treat. The kids loved it.

Learned so much about the area through the history posters. Very informative. Loved the walkabout in the park.

If you don’t like dogs i would avoid this park as there’s lots of them running around. Not a problem for me as i love dogs and much prefer them to cats due to their loyalty. Anyway, the park is nicely kept and generally clean of rubbish and litter. Toilets are a bit gross, though, so do your business before you come here i would say!

Lovely park with amazing flower garden plus decent food @ the cafe. They do some really cool community activities like bee keeping. All round is a good but needs a little work done. New skate park would be nice 👍

It is a nice park, but if you compare it to the Royal Parks it does look a bit dull. It has a playground, a coffee shop, table tennis area and places too run, explore and sit. It is also conveniently located opposite a tube station. So overall, it's good if you are nearby but not to much to visit it on its own.

Kennington Park is great all year round. It has that gorgeous tree lined layout that makes walking in summer that bit cooler and in autumn that beautiful golden moment. There’s a flower area sectioned off as well as a pizzeria and cafe that is owned by the same people as a nearby cafe. There’s a good outdoor gym that saw a lot of use during the coronavirus pandemic but people was generally respectful. Dogs are all over but if this isn’t your thing, there’s some quieter areas you can escape to also.

Really nice park, with good areas for dog walking and exercising. There's a basketball court, 2 concrete ping pong tables, outdoor exercise equipment, a play area for kids, plenty of benches and a cafe. Only reason I gave a 4 is because the only toilets I could find were in the cafe. So if there were toilets they weren't well sign posted. But aside from that, brilliant. Oh and the cafe served very tasty pizzas!

Most friendly and hospitable gentleman. It was my birthday and celebrated with me. Absolute legends and the food was the best I’ve had south of the river! If you’re anywhere near central then it’s worth the trip. Can’t recommend highly enough! The food was the absolute bomb! A little taste of Cyprus :)

Well utilised, lively and diverse park in the daytime despite its compact size and noisy roads on two sides. Just spoiled a bit by the petty old-fashioned insistence on padlocking the gates at the first moment the light falls (except the odd gate that is randomly left open). Just let the people use *their* public spaces, whenever they want or need fresh air and open space, not just on the council's clock.

A superb city oasis, large park with sports facilities, a flower garden, an area set aside for dogs, and some interesting nods to the park's history. Will take several visits for me to fully explore. Near to the Oval cricket ground.

Nice friendly neighborhood park. Pizzas at the café are really good. They do tasty ice cream too!

I love this park most of the time. It’s a great size to do laps walking / running, for a picnic on a sunny day… it has a playground in a secluded area for small children and a lovely cafe. The one thing I don’t like is that lately there are groups of people who go there to loiter, drink or smoke marihuana. They typically do this in the border areas, but it’s definitely not good for a community park.

Beautiful park with nice cafe serving food and coffee.

Early morning is lovely, just a hand full of people. Very peaceful which is great, that makes it prefect.

Nice escape from the London bustle. Good for a jog around. There's a small Japanese-inspired garden although it's looking a little under-maintained these days. Still nice to sit and read a book though.

Loved walking through the Park today in the sunshine with the shade of all the trees. Best scented rose ever in the flower garden 😍 Interesting boards around the Park sharing history and other information 😀

What a delight this park is. Well stocked with interesting trees and well established beds. It has a lovely character with the spring shoots starting to push through. There is a lovely flower garden with quite secluded seating, lovely in the sun. There are beehives, lots of birds and what looks like a really nice pizza cafe. This is a real oasis, a perfect place to escape the urban chaos.

Very lovely park for children. The flowers were quite attractive and beautiful