Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KENNET (EAST and WEST)

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))

Linked entities:
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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