Kennett is a small village in East Cambridgeshire on the very border with Suffolk approximately 2.5 miles NE of Newmarket and 4 miles NW of Bury St Edmunds. The cache is hidden quite close to the village sign.
Kennett has a very small parish of only 1431 acres (579 hectares). In the Domesday Book written in 1086, twenty years after the Battle of Hastings, the village is named Chenet after the river (now the River Kennett which is a tributary of the River Lark. The origin of the river's name is unclear, but it appears to be of Celtic origin, as many of our British rivers. The neighbouring village of Kentford is also named after the river.
About Village Sign Caches
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This cache belongs to the Village Sign Series, a series of caches based on ornate signs that depict the heritage, history and culture of the villages that put them up (generally on the village green!).
The signs can be made of different materials from fibreglass to wood, from forged steel to stone. They can depict anything from local industry to historical events. The tradition probably started in Norfolk or Suffolk and has now spread across most of the country so we thought we would base a series on them!
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More information, bookmarks and statistics can be found at the Village Signs Website
If anybody would like to expand the Village Sign Series, please do.
I would ask that you request a number for your cache first at www.villagesignseries.co.uk
so we can keep track of the Village Sign numbers and names to avoid duplication.