Kensal Place ran from Southam Street to Kensal Road.
Along with the surrounding streets, it dates from the 1860s. The houses had been poorly built and by the 1930s, they had been declared unfit for human habitation. Electricity did not arrive until the 1950s. In the same period, the 1951 census recorded that the number of people living at a density of more than two to a room was four times higher in the area than in London as a whole.
Kensal Place adopted the name Kensal Place in 1938 having been previously called Tottenham Street.