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
Population: - Total (2007 est.) - Density	Ranked 303rd 78,900 82 / km²
Ethnicity:	96.7% White 1.0% S.Asian 1.0% Mixed Race 0.6% Black 0.7% Chinese or other
Politics
Kennet District Council http://www.kennet.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31
Control:	Conservative
MP:	Michael Ancram (Devizes)

Kennet is a local government district in Wiltshire, England. Its council is based in Devizes. It is named after the River Kennet.

The district was formed on April 1, 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.

It contains the Devizes parliamentary constituency.

The district will be abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England.

See also

• Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, which is completely unrelated to this District.

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