Kenley is a small village and

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in the

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county of

Shropshire Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West M ...

. It is located in remote countryside, atop a ridge at around

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. It is near the larger villages of

Acton Burnell Acton Burnell () is a village and parish in the English county of Shropshire. Home to Concord College, it is also famous for an early meeting of Parliament where the Statute of Acton Burnell was passed in 1283. The population at the 2011 cen ...

, about three miles to the north-west, and

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, about two miles to the east. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 258. The_Farmhouse_at_Church_Farm_-_geograph

The name is probably formed from the

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personal name ''Cenna'' with ''-ley'', meaning a clearing in a wood.Raven, M. ''A Guide to Shropshire'', 2005, p.102 To the west are the hamlets of Ruckley and Langley, which form a separate civil parish. The historian Archibald Alison and statistician

William Farr William Farr Order of the Bath, CB (30 November 1807 – 14 April 1883) was a British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics. Early life William Farr was born in Kenley, Shropshire, to poor parents. He was effec ...

were born in Kenley.

Notable people

* Archibald Alison, (1757-1839), Scots essayist, onetime parish rector. *

Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, (29 December 179223 May 1867) was a Scottish advocate (attorney) and historian. He held several prominent legal appointments. He was the younger son of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Episcopalian cleric and au ...

, (1792 at Kenley-1867),

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and

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, his son *

, (1807 at Kenley-1883), statistician

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Villages in Shropshire Civil parishes in Shropshire {{Shropshire-geo-stub

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