Kennington

Kennington as seen on a digital map of London. (TV: The Bounty Hunter ^[+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"])

According to one account, Rose and Jackie Tyler lived in a council estate in Kennington (PROSE: Rose Tyler) in the London Borough of Southwark, (TV: Father's Day) however other accounts placed the Powell Estate in Peckham. (COMIC: Silver Scream, PROSE: Downtime: Child of the New World, AUDIO: Ghosts)

History

The restaurant the duplicate of Mickey Smith took Rose Tyler to in March 2005 (TV: Rose) was located in Kennington. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre)

On 6 March 2006, the Slitheen craft flew over Kennington, including the Powell Estate and a church. (TV: Aliens of London ^[+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])

In mid-2006, after the Northern and Jubilee London Underground lines began to be refurbished, an exponential quantity of still-active Schlechter Wolves were excavated in Bow, Pimlico, Kennington in London. (PROSE: Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings ^[+]Loading...["Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings (short story)"])

Alternate timelines

In a later rectified timeline in which the Fifteenth Doctor had disappeared in 2024, a landslide victory for the Albion Party was announced in the 2046 general election from Kennington High, (TV: 73 Yards ^[+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"]) which was Roger ap Gwilliam's constituency. (PROSE: 73 Yards ^[+]Loading...{"page":"119","1":"73 Yards (novelisation)"}). Gwilliam was elected Prime Minister. (TV: 73 Yards ^[+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

While the short story Rose Tyler was the first story to give a explicit location for the Powell Estate, scenes in the television episode Aliens of London evidently depicted the Powell Estate being located in Kennington, specifically in a 1:1 location to its real world filming location, the Brandon Estate, located in Kennington. Kennington is situated along the border of London Borough of Lambeth and the London Borough of Southwark, and the estate's location in the London Borough of Southwark was also evident from TV: Father's Day.

Thus, choosing a location that both aligns with the real world and the DWU logically makes sense. However, it was later established in comic strip Silver Scream that the Powell Estate was located in Peckham, which has been seemingly accepted by every story that came out after it, which creates irreconcilable discrepancies with stories such as Aliens of London, where various shots would be impossible if the Powell Estate was located in Peckham.

Furthermore, the BBC's webpage on Doctor Who from 2005 states that Rose is from SE15, which is Peckham's postcode, whereas the postcode for Kennington is primarily SE11. Additionally, the short story Meet Rose and the television episode Army of Ghosts give "SE15 7GO" as her postcode.

Location information

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Though it's possible that a real world location doesn't exist in the same geographic space in the Doctor Who universe, such cases are few and far between. Thus, the map to the right is probably a good indicator of the DWU location of Kennington.