Editing Kennington (section)

===18th century===
[[File:St Mark's Church, Kennington 20 Feb 2022.jpg|thumb|left|Plaque at [[St Mark's Church, Kennington]] in 2022]]
The eighteenth century saw considerable development in Kennington. At the start of the century, the area was essentially a village on the southern roads into London, with a common on which public executions took place. On three dates in 1746, [[Francis Towneley]] and sixteen men who had taken part in the [[Jacobite rising of 1745|Jacobite rising]] were hanged, drawn and quartered at Kennington Common.

The area was significant enough, however, to be recognised in the [[Peerage of Great Britain]] and in 1726, the title Earl of Kennington was assumed by [[Prince William, Duke of Cumberland]].

The development of Kennington came about through access to London, which happened when, in 1750, [[Westminster Bridge]] was constructed. In 1751, [[Kennington Road]] was built from [[Kennington Common]] (as it then was; now Kennington Park) to Westminster Bridge Road.

[[File:Kennington Road - geograph.org.uk - 175708.jpg|thumb|Kennington Road was constructed in 1751, and houses were soon built along it.]]

By the 1770s, the development of Kennington into its modern form was well underway. Terraces of houses were built on the east side of Kennington Road and [[Cleaver Square]] (then called Prince's Square) was laid out in 1788.<ref>It derived its name from the two houses on Kennington Park Road flanking the entrance to the square, built for Joseph Prince by Michael Searles in the 1760s. The name was changed to Cleaver Square in 1937, named after Mary Cleaver who had owned the land in the 18th century. On Cleaver Square, see further below.</ref> [[Michael Searles]], architect and developer, built semi-detached houses along [[Kennington Park Road]] in the 1790s.

A fraudster from [[Camberwell]], named Badger, was the last person to be hanged at Kennington Common, in 1799.