Kensington is an unincorporated community and census designated place located in the Berkeley Hills, in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Contra Costa County, California. In the 20th century it was considered part of Berkeley, although it is across the county line. House numbers follow the pattern used in Berkeley, and Kensington shares two zip codes with the Berkeley Hills area.
Blake Garden, Kensington
Don Víctor Castro, a Californio ranchero and politician, owned the area where Kensington was founded, as part of his Rancho San Pablo.
Entrance to Ardmore Path
Stein's pharmacy at Amherst and Arlington
El Cerrito is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 census. El Cerrito was founded by refugees from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It was incorporated in 1917 as a village with 1,500 residents. As of the census in 2022, there were 25,583 people and 10,637 households in the city.
Cerrito Theater on San Pablo Avenue
Don Víctor Castro, a Californio ranchero who helped found El Cerrito on his Rancho El Sobrante.
Albany Hill in neighboring Albany, California, named by Luis María Peralta as "El Cerrito de San Antonio" ("The Little Hill of St. Anthony"), is the namesake of the city.
Shops in El Cerrito.
