Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KENNET (EAST)

KENNET (EAST), a parish in Marlborough district, Wilts; on the river Kennet, near its source, 4½ miles N of Woodborough r. station, and 5 WSW of Marlborough, Post town, Marlborough. Acres, 808. Real property, with East and West Kennet, £2, 228. Pop., 78. Houses, 20. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £113.* Patron, R. Mathews, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1864, on the site of the previous one; and is in the early English style.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: East Kennett AP/CP       Marlborough RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place names: EAST KENNET     |     KENNET     |     KENNET EAST
Place: East Kennett

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