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Kensington is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood, Payneham & St Peters council area. Unlike the rest of the city, Kensington's streets are laid out diagonally. Second Creek runs through and under part of the suburb, which contains many heritage buildings as well as Norwood Swimming Centre and several schools.

The village of Kensington was surveyed in November 1838 by J. H. Hughes, the first in the immediate area, and was named after Kensington Palace. The streets were laid out diagonally in order to minimise crossings of Second Creek, with the main streets, High Street and Regent Street, running parallel to the creek. Wellington and Bridge Streets, in the south western corner of the suburb, were first to be settled, and Bridge Street was the main street until a tramline was laid along High Street in the 1870s. John Roberts and other builders were responsible for building many brick residences after the 1840s. The Colonial Secretary, then Alfred Mundy, lived in Kensington in 1848. This was before the village of Marryatville was developed over the road to the south. A Catholic nun, now a saint, Mary MacKillop lived and worked in Kensington from 1872 until 1883, establishing the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Congregation. The Mary MacKillop Precinct is located site, and includes a museum, a conference centre, and St Joseph's Chapel. Mary MacKillop College is also within the precinct. The Adelaide & Suburban Tramway Company built and ran a horse drawn tramway from Kensington to the Adelaide city centre, comprising double tracks that ran down The Parade. A single loop track ran up Regent Street and back down High Street.

The Rising Sun Hotel was established in 1846 by William Beck, a "black African" man who had previously run the Kensington Arms; the hotel was later referred to as "Black Becks". The inn occupied the premises at 64 Bridge Street from 1848 to 1882, during which the Beck family was associated with it for its first two decades; Sarah Ann Beck and then Alexander Beck held the licence following William's death. In 1858 the inn was described as "a public house of brick, 7 rooms, bar, kitchen, stables, sheds and garden"; by 1864 it included a cellar. Edwin T. Smith, proprietor of Kent Town Brewery, bought the inn, and Benjamin Morey, who served as local councillor in 1863–64, held the licence until October 1878. Smith improved the building, adding an enclosed area at the front and fitting the interior with cedar woodwork. After Morey came William Hamlin Fairley and John Paul Dunk in 1879, followed by Henry White Newlyn in 1880. and Oddfellows, as well as coronial inquests, were held at the hotel in the 1880s. The old building, owned by Smith until 1913, was converted into three residential tenancies. It was used as a motorcycle factory from 1950 to 1972, manufacturing the only South Australian produced motorcycles. After that the building lay derelict until it was converted into a boutique pub in 1983. The corner building which housed the hotel at the turn of the century was heritage listed in 1990, as two attached shops and a residence. The internationally renowned visual effects company, Rising Sun Pictures, took its name from the pub after its founders had their first meeting there in 1995. The school was established in 1883 at a site on Kensington Road, and moved to its current location in 1978. The first principal was William J. Kent. Mary MacKillop College is a private Catholic girls' secondary school located in Kensington, founded by Mary MacKillop in 1872. McKellar Stewart Kindergarten is a preschool on Regent Place. The junior primary campus of St Joseph's Memorial School, catering for children from preschool to Year 1, is in Bridge Street, Kensington, while its other campus in William Street, Norwood, caters for Year 2 to Year 6. A middle school STEM building for Pembroke School is located in Kensington, adjacent to the main middle school facilities in Kensington Park. The building was designed by architects Grieve Gillett Anderson and opened in 2019.

Borthwick Park has its front entrance on Thornton Street, with two other entrances off Bridge Street and High Street via Heanes Lane. Second Creek runs through the park. It contains a number of large river red gum trees, and has been greatly improved since the 2000s by a revegetation project, undertaken by the Kensington Residents Association (KRA) in association with the council and the Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board. Since 2010, plantings by the volunteer group have helped to establish plants which were native to the area before the colonisation of South Australia, improving biodiversity by establishing new growth under the remnant gums, after removal of invasive kikuyu grass in these areas. Sedges and rushes to help protect banks of Second Creek from further erosion, and a nature play area has been established on one bank. Kensington Pioneer Park was created on a former church graveyard in Maesbury Street, and was named in honour of the pioneers of the area who were buried in the cemetery between February 1849 to October 1864. It is a small park next to "The Village Church", a former church now converted into a residence. The church was non denominational, later Congregational. The park was created by the local Apex Club in 1966. There is a large rock with a plaque listing the names of all those buried in the cemetery.

Norwood Swimming Centre, an outdoor pool owned by the council, is in Phillips Street. High Street Cafe is next to Mary McKillop School. Apart from the Rising Sun (mentioned above), there is another pub, the Kensington Hotel, aka "The Kensi", on Regent Street.