Kentford
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Kentford is a village and civil parish located in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Situated on the banks of the River Kennet, the village is positioned on the B1506 road connecting Newmarket to Bury St. Edmunds. The village is served by the Kennett railway station, located just off the A14, which offers an indirect railway connection to London via Cambridge. Kentford is located about four miles northeast of Newmarket and nine miles west of Bury St. Edmunds. The village falls within the Bury St. Edmunds division of the county and is divided between the Lackford and Risbr
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- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Kentford
- UK place.population
- 1,125
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.shire_district
- West Suffolk
- UK place.shire_county
- Suffolk
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- West Suffolk
- UK place.post_town
- Newmarket
- UK place.postcode_district
- CB8
- UK place.postcode_area
- CB
- UK place.dial_code
- 01638
- UK place.static_image
- Kentford Church - geograph.org.uk - 42904.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 240px
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Church of St. Mary in Kentford
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- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- West Suffolk
- Population
- 420
- Image
- Kentford Church - geograph.org.uk - 42904.jpg
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Kentford is a village and civil parish located in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Situated on the banks of the River Kennet, the village is positioned on the B1506 road connecting Newmarket to Bury St. Edmunds. The village is served by the Kennett railway station, located just off the A14, which offers an indirect railway connection to London via Cambridge. Kentford is located about four miles northeast of Newmarket and nine miles west of Bury St. Edmunds. The village falls within the Bury St. Edmunds division of the county and is divided between the Lackford and Risbridge Hundred. Kentford is also part of the Newmarket petty sessional division, Mildenhall union and county court district, rural deanery of Newmarket, archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The population of Kentford was estimated to be 1125 as of 2021.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kentford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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