Description
Kennett, a parish in Cambridgeshire, on a branch of the river Lark, at the boundary with Suffolk, and on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the G.E.R., adjacent to Icknield Street, 4 miles NE from Newmarket. It has a station on the railway, and there is a post and telegraph office at the adjoining village of Kentford, under Newmarket; money order office, Moulton. Acreage, 1431; population, 165. The manor, with Kennett Hall, belongs to the Godfrey family. Fairfax's headquarters were here in 1647. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £156 with residence. The church is a small building of flint chiefly in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
