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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  KENTON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	HARROW UD/MB (Local Government District)
  KENTON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CB/MB (Local Government District)
  KENTON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	WEMBLEY UD/MB (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "KENTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Cofton	Devon	Cofton , eccl. dist. and hamlet, Dawlish and Kenton pars., E. Devon, pop. 354; hamlet, 6½ m. SE. of Exeter.	Bartholomew
  COFTON	Devon Kent	Kenton parish, Devon; near the Starcross station of the South Devon railway, 6½ miles S by E of Exeter	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Kenton, East Teignmouth, Teignton-Bishops, and St. Thomas-the-Apostle; and the p. curacies of Ide, Starcross, Oldridge, West Teignmouth	Imperial
  GOSFORTH	Northumberland	Kenton; the last of which has a post office under Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Acres, 6, 355. Real property, £26, 585; of which	Imperial
  HARROW-ON-THE-HILL	Middlesex	Kenton, Preston, Roxeth, Sudbury, Wembley, and Harrow-Weald. Acres, 9, 870. Real property, £41, 033. Pop. in 1851, 4, 951; in 1861, 5, 525. Houses	Imperial
  KEN (THE)	Devon	Haldon Hill, and running about 8 miles south-eastward, past Kenn and Kenton, to the river Exe, at Powderham Castle.	Imperial
  Kenton	Devon	Kenton .-- par. and vil., Devon, in Kenn valley, 6½ miles SE. of Exeter, 6811 ac. (930 water), pop. 1919; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Kenton	Northumberland	miles NE. of New-castle-on-Tyne, 1454 ac., pop. 615; P.O.; contains the hamlets of East Kenton , and West Kenton .	Bartholomew
  Kenton	Suffolk	Kenton , par. and vil., Suffolk, 2½ miles NE. of Debenham, 1208 ac., pop. 254; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Kenton	Middlesex	Kenton , hamlet, Harrow on the Hill par., Middlesex, 2 miles NE. of Harrow.	Bartholomew
  KENTON	Middlesex	KENTON , a hamlet in Harrow-on-the-Hill parish, Middlesex; 2 miles NE of Harrow. Pop., 99. It has a post	Imperial
  KENTON	Northumberland	KENTON , a township in Gosforth parish, Northumberland; on the Northeastern railway, 3 miles NNE of Newcastle-on-Tyne. It contains	Imperial
  KENTON	Devon	KENTON , a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in St. Thomas district, Devon. The village stands in the valley	Imperial
  KENTON	Suffolk	KENTON , a parish, with a village, in Plomesgate district, Suffolk; 2½ miles NE of Debenham, and 6 WNW of Framlingham	Imperial
  PLOMESGATE	Suffolk	Kenton, Brandeston, Kettleburgh, Cretingham, Monewden, and Hoo; the sub-district of Framlingham, containing the parishes of Framlingham, Parham, Easton, and Letheringham	Imperial
  POWDERHAM	Devon	Kenton, Devon. Acres, 1, 947; of which 495 are water. Real property, £2, 253. Pop., 238. Houses, 51. The manor	Imperial
  Starcross	Devon	Kenton and Dawlish pars., Devon, on estuary of the Exe, 4 miles NE. of Dawlish and 8 miles SE. of Exeter	Bartholomew
  STARCROSS	Devon Kent	Kenton parish, and a chapelry partly also in Dawlish parish, Devon. The village stands on the estuary of the Exe, and on the South	Imperial
  THOMAS (St.)	Devon	Kenton, Heavitree, Topsham, Broad Clist, Woodbury, Exmouth, and East Budleigh. Acres, 130,141. Poor rates, in 1863, £20,860. Pop. in 1851, 48,806; in 1861, 48,405. Houses	Imperial

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