| Kenton | |
|---|---|
 All Saints Church, Kenton | |
  Kenton Location within Suffolk | |
| Population | 170 (2005)[1] 237 (2011)[2] |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Stowmarket |
| Postcode district | IP14 |
| Police | Suffolk |
| Fire | Suffolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Kenton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located 1.9 miles to the north-east of Debenham, in 2005 its population was 170.[1] The parish was formerly an exclave of the Loes Hundred one of the Hundreds of Suffolk.
The name Kenton comes from the Old English for ‘Kingly’, or ‘Royal’ and can trace its origins back to before the Norman conquest.
Not to be confused by Kenton, a place partly in the London Borough of Harrow and partly in the London Borough of Brent, and Kenton, a place in Devon.
Between 1908 and 1952 the village was served by the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, on which it had a station with a platform, which was located over 0.6 miles south. The station had a small building made externally of corrugated iron and internally of match-boarding. Kenton station was halfway between Laxfield and Haughley on the branch line.
Kenton Hall (around 1200) resides nearby about half a mile south-west from the church.[3][4]
Grass drying plant (operated by Eastern Counties Farmers) was just behind the old station.
- ^ a b Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine Suffolk County Council
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "Kenton Hall Estate". Kenton Hall Estate. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ GENUKI. "Genuki: Kenton, Suffolk". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2023.