Kenley, Shropshire
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Kenley is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Shropshire. It is located in remote countryside, atop a ridge at around Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level. It is near the larger villages of Acton Burnell, about three miles to the north-west, and Harley, about two miles to the east. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 258.[1]
The name is probably formed from the Old English personal name Cenna with -ley, meaning a clearing in a wood.[2]
To the west are the hamlets of Ruckley and Langley, which form a separate civil parish.
The historian Archibald Alison and statistician William Farr were born in Kenley.
Notable people
- Archibald Alison, (1757-1839), Scots essayist, onetime parish rector.
- Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, (1792 at Kenley-1867), historian and advocate, his son
- William Farr, (1807 at Kenley-1883), statistician
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