It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality[2] and is bounded to the west by the suburb of Troyeville, to the east by Bedfordview and the north by Bruma and Cyrildene.

Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land of one of the original farms called Doornfontein.

All of the streets coming off Langermann Drive are in alphabetical order and are named after British war ships.

The streets were heavily planted with trees, which give the area a distinctive, wooded appearance.

[4] The Kensington Cross is a memorial on Caledonia Hill, made out of granite with the shape of an Iona Cross, a superimposed sword (a 16th Century two-handed true claymore or claidheamhmor), the memorial proudly bears the Scottish shield of lion rampant and royal treasure.