• 1°59′42″W / 51.352°N 1.995°W / 51.352; -1.995 Kennet was a non-metropolitan local government district in Wiltshire, England, abolished as part of the...
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    The Kennet is a tributary of the River Thames in Southern England. Most of the river is straddled by the North Wessex Downs AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural...
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  • Kennet may refer to: Kennet, Clackmannanshire, Scotland Baron Kennet, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom D. Mark Kennet (born 1957), American...
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    The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of 87 miles (140 km), made up of two lengths of navigable river linked...
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  • population of the parishes was 809. List of civil parishes in Wiltshire Kennet District Council Website page on Broad Hinton and Winterbourne Bassett Parish...
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  • Kennet was a non-metropolitan district in Wiltshire, England. It was abolished on 1 April 2009 and replaced by Wiltshire Council. From the first election...
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    Ridgeway, St Margaret, St Philip, and Wroughton. 1997–2010: The District of Kennet, the District of North Wiltshire wards of Calne Abberd, Calne Central, Calne...
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    discovered in the vale. According to the Pewsey Vale Local Plan prepared by Kennet District Council in 1992, the vale includes land in the following parishes:...
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  • party was formed in 2001 and has been successful in winning seats on Kennet District Council and Wiltshire Council, but at present is represented only on...
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    Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath. The town is on the River Kennet, 24 miles (39 km) north of Salisbury and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Swindon...
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    of the population living in the wooded Kennet valley. Apart from Newbury, the other main centres in the district include Thatcham, Hungerford, Pangbourne...
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    abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the new Kennet district. In 1945 the council bought a large Georgian house called Axholme House...
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    2009 following the abolition of Wiltshire County Council and the districts of Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, and West Wiltshire. They were all replaced...
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  • Elections to Kennet District Council were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election, and the Conservatives comfortably retained control...
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    October 2022. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 16 March 2023. "Wiltshire Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 5 July 2023. Bradley, Arthur Granville (1907). Round...
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  • Kennet School is an academy secondary school in Thatcham, Berkshire, England. In 2011, Kennet was the highest achieving state school in West Berkshire...
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    Hungerford (category Kennet and Avon Canal)
    The Kennet and Avon Canal passes through the town alongside the River Dun, a major tributary of the River Kennet. The confluence with the Kennet is to...
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  • and a former member of Devizes Town Council. He has also served as a Kennet District Councillor and was a Wiltshire Councillor from 2009 to 2013. His first...
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    civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The village is in the Kennet Valley near the Berkshire boundary. The nearest towns are Hungerford about...
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    Department in the 1980s. It then lay vacant and deteriorating. In 2006–7, Kennet District Council, supported by the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust, initiated...
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    the open end facing east, surrounding the town of Newbury and the River Kennet catchment area. The northern arm reaches as far east as the suburbs of Reading...
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    related to Tidcombe at Wikimedia Commons Tidcombe Conservation Area Statement – Kennet District Council, 2005. Describes each building of the village....
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    field system. Two avenues of standing stones radiate from Avebury henge. Kennet Avenue runs south-east for about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) from the south...
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  • Kennet is a small former coal-mining village in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. It is located 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) south-east of Clackmannan, by the Kincardine...
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    the Devizes and District Hospital. When no longer required for this purpose, it fell into disrepair and was bought by Kennet District Council, which undertook...
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    Newbury, Berkshire (category Kennet and Avon Canal)
    is a market town in West Berkshire, England, in the valley of the River Kennet. It is 26 miles (42 km) south of Oxford, 25 miles (40 km) north of Winchester...
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    serve as the meeting place of the borough council until the enlarged Kennet District Council was formed in 1974. After that, it became the meeting place...
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    Swindon) was a two-level county, divided into four local government districtsKennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and West Wiltshire – which existed alongside...
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    the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government after Kennet District Council was established at The Cedars in Bath Road in 1974. The town...
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    Wikimedia Commons Milton Lilbourne at Wiltshire Community History "Fyfield Conservation Area" (PDF). Kennet District Council. Retrieved 12 March 2015....
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