Kensington Road | |
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  West end East end | |
| Coordinates | |
| General information | |
| Type | Road |
| Location | Adelaide |
| Length | 6.2 km (3.9 mi) [1] |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Wakefield Road Rose Park, Adelaide |
| East end | No through road Wattle Park, Adelaide |
| Location(s) | |
| Region | Eastern Adelaide [2] |
| Major suburbs | Norwood, Leabrook, Erindale, Wattle Park |
Kensington Road is a main road in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide, [3] linking the Adelaide city centre to its eastern suburbs.
Its western end, on the edge of the Adelaide city centre, starts at the Britannia Roundabout on the City Ring Route. Kensington Road continues east through Adelaide's eastern suburbs of Leabrook and Erindale, before the road dead-ends at the foot of the western Adelaide Hills in Wattle Park.
Kensington Road has also been subject to controversial development by the Shahin family for their OTR headquarters, with over five attempts of approval despite community opposition. [4]
| LGA [5] | Location [1] [6] | km [1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Adelaide–Norwood Payneham & St Peters–Burnside tripoint | Adelaide–Kent Town–Norwood–Rose Park quadripoint | 0.0 | 0.0 |  Fullarton Road (R1 south, unallocated north) – Wattle Park Dequetteville Terrace (R1 northwest) – North Adelaide Wakefield Road (west) – Adelaide CBD | Western terminus of road at Britannia Roundabout |
| Norwood Payneham & St Peters–Burnside boundary | Norwood–Rose Park–Toorak Gardens tripoint | 0.8 | 0.50 | Osmond Terrace (north) – Norwood Prescott Terrace (south) – Dulwich | |
| Norwood–Kensington–Toorak Gardens–Marryatville quadripoint | 1.6 | 0.99 |  Portrush Road (A17) – Northfield, Payneham, Glen Osmond | ||
| Burnside | Wattle Park | 6.2 | 3.9 | No through road | Skye Lookout |
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