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{{Short description|Former non-metropolitan district in Wiltshire, England}}
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!colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"|Kennet District
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|colspan=2 align=center|[[Image:WiltshireKennet.png|110px|Kennet]]<br />''Shown within non-metropolitan [[Wiltshire]]''
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Geography
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|width="45%"|Status:||District
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|[[Regions of England|Region]]:||[[South West England]]
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|Admin. County:||[[Wiltshire]]
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|[[Surface area|Area]]:<br />- Total||[[List of English districts by area|Ranked 28th]]<br />[[Orders of magnitude (area)#108 to 1014 square metres|966.62]] km<sup>2</sup>
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|Admin. HQ:||[[Devizes]]
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|[[ONS coding system|ONS code]]:||46UB
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Demographics
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|Ethnicity:||96.7% White<br />1.0% S.Asian<br />1.0% Mixed Race<br />0.6% Black<br />0.7% Chinese or other<br />
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Politics
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|colspan=2 align=center|<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Arms-kennet.jpg|200px|Arms of Kennet District Council]] -->Kennet District Council
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|[[Local government in England#Councillors and mayors|Leadership]]:||Alternative - Sec.31
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'''Kennet''' was a [[Non-metropolitan district|non-metropolitan]] [[local government]] [[Districts of England|district]] in [[Wiltshire]], England, abolished as part of the [[2009 structural changes to local government in England|2009 structural changes to local government]]. 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 borough]]s of Devizes and [[Marlborough, Wiltshire|Marlborough]], alongside [[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|structural changes to local government in England]], when its functions were taken over by the new [[Wiltshire (district)|Wiltshire]] [[unitary authority]].

==See also==
*[[Kennet District Council elections]]

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{{Local government districts of England abolished in 2009}}

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