Kenton village

First reference is from the 12th century, when William of Newham (living in 1166) and Ralph his brother gave Kenton to William's daughter. A member of the barony of Whalton, it had 6 taxpayers in 1296. The original shape of this hamlet is uncertain, but it was perhaps T-shaped, with an east-west two-row layout at right-angles to another running south to the Town Moor, the first possibly with a green. By the mid 19th century it was extremely straggly, perhaps having been stretched out by the addition of post-medieval miners' dwellings.