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KENNET (EAST and WEST), a tything in Avebury parish, Wilts; on the river Kennet, adjacent to East Kennet parish, 5 miles W of Marlborough. It anciently formed a parish, known at Domesday as Chenete; and it contains a village, notable for the production of what is called Kennet ale. Pop., 108. See Avebury and SilBury Hill.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a tything" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Wiltshire AncC |
Place names: | CHENETE | KENNET EAST AND WEST |
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