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Kenton, Suffolk

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Kenton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located 3 km to the north-east of Debenham, in 2005 its population was 170. A parish in the Hundreds of Suffolk of Loes.Not to be confused by Kenton, a place partly in the London Borough of Harrow and partly in the London Borough of Brent and Dorset.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 1 km 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 1868) resides nearby about half a mile south-west from the church.Grass drying plant (operated by Eastern Counties Farmers) was just behind the old station.Present dayAll Saints (Church OS grid TM 191 659) is on the unclassified road between Occold and Earl Soham and Church Lane with Church Close nearby.

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