Kennet District

Coordinates: 51°21′07″N 1°59′42″W / 51.352°N 1.995°W / 51.352; -1.995

Kennet District
Shown within non-metropolitan Wiltshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South West England
Admin. County:	Wiltshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 28th 966.62 km²
Admin. HQ:	Devizes
ONS code:	46UB
Demographics
Ethnicity:	96.7% White 1.0% S.Asian 1.0% Mixed Race 0.6% Black 0.7% Chinese or other
Politics
Kennet District Council
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31

Kennet was a non-metropolitan local government district in Wiltshire, England, abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. It was named after the River Kennet.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the municipal boroughs of Devizes, Marlborough, and Devizes Rural District, Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District and Pewsey Rural District.

The district council was based at offices in Devizes. It was abolished on 1 April 2009 as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England, when its functions were taken over by the new Wiltshire Council unitary authority.

Ceremonial county of Wiltshire

Unitary authorities	Swindon Wiltshire Council

Major settlements	Amesbury Bradford on Avon Bulford Camp Calne Chippenham Corsham Cricklade Devizes Highworth Larkhill Ludgershall Malmesbury Marlborough Melksham Mere Royal Wootton Bassett Salisbury Swindon Tidworth Tisbury Trowbridge Warminster Westbury Wilton Wroughton See also: List of civil parishes in Wiltshire

Rivers	Biss Blackwater Bourne Bristol Avon Chalke Cole Damson Ebble Hampshire Avon Kennet Key Nadder Nine Mile Og Thames Till Wylye

Topics	Flag Parliamentary constituencies Local elections Places Population of major settlements SSSIs Country houses Grade I listed buildings Grade II* listed buildings History Schools Lords Lieutenant Deputy Lieutenants High Sheriffs Museums

2009 structural changes to local government in England

Bedfordshire

Abolished	Bedford Mid Bedfordshire South Bedfordshire

New	Bedford Central Bedfordshire

Existing (1990s)	Luton

Cheshire

Abolished	Chester Congleton Crewe and Nantwich Ellesmere Port and Neston Macclesfield Vale Royal

New	Cheshire West and Chester Cheshire East

Existing (1990s)	Warrington Halton

Cornwall

Abolished	Caradon Carrick Kerrier North Cornwall Penwith Restormel

New	Cornwall

Existing (1890s)	Isles of Scilly

County Durham

Abolished	Chester-le-Street Derwentside Durham Easington Sedgefield Teesdale Wear Valley

New	Durham

Existing (1990s)	Hartlepool Darlington Stockton-on-Tees

Northumberland

Abolished	Alnwick Berwick-upon-Tweed Blyth Valley Castle Morpeth Tynedale Wansbeck

New	Northumberland

Existing (1990s)	None

Shropshire

Abolished	Bridgnorth North Shropshire Oswestry Shrewsbury and Atcham South Shropshire

New	Shropshire

Existing (1990s)	Telford and Wrekin

Wiltshire

Abolished	Salisbury West Wiltshire Kennet North Wiltshire

New	Wiltshire

Existing (1990s)	Swindon

Former non-metropolitan districts of England

Districts	Alnwick Bath Berwick-upon-Tweed Blyth Valley Boothferry Bridgnorth Brighton Caradon Carrick Castle Morpeth Chester Chester-le-Street Cleethorpes Congleton Crewe and Nantwich Derwentside Durham Easington East Yorkshire East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley Ellesmere Port and Neston Gillingham Glanford Great Grimsby Hereford Holderness Hove Kennet Kerrier Kingswood Leominster Macclesfield Medina Mid Bedfordshire North Cornwall North Shropshire North Wiltshire Northavon Oswestry Penwith Restormel Rochester-upon-Medway Salisbury Scunthorpe Sedgefield Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Herefordshire South Shropshire South Wight Teesdale Tynedale Vale Royal Wansbeck Wansdyke Wear Valley West Wiltshire

Local elections	Alnwick Bath Berwick-upon-Tweed Blyth Valley Boothferry Bridgnorth Brighton Caradon Carrick Castle Morpeth Chester Chester-le-Street Cleethorpes Congleton Crewe and Nantwich Derwentside Durham Easington East Yorkshire East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley Ellesmere Port and Neston Gillingham Glanford Great Grimsby Hereford Holderness Hove Kennet Kerrier Kingswood Leominster Macclesfield Medina Mid Bedfordshire North Cornwall North Shropshire North Wiltshire Northavon Oswestry Penwith Restormel Rochester-upon-Medway Salisbury Scunthorpe Sedgefield Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Herefordshire South Shropshire South Wight Teesdale Tynedale Vale Royal Wansbeck Wansdyke Wear Valley West Wiltshire

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Kennet District

See also