KENNETT, a parish in Newmarket district, Cambridge; on a branch of the river Lark, at the boundary with Suffolk, and on the Cambridge, Newmarket, and Bury railway, adjacent to Icknield street, 5 miles NE of Newmarket. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Newmarket. Acres, 1, 425. R eal property, £1, 335. Pop., 207. Houses, 42. The manor belongs to the Rev. W. Godfrey. Fairfax's head quarters were here in 1647. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £200. Patron, the Rev. W. Godfrey. The church has an embattled tower, and was recently restored.

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