Kennet is a small former coal-mining village in
Clackmannanshire
Clackmannanshire (; ; ), or the County of Clackmannan, is a Shires of Scotland, historic county, Council areas of Scotland, council area, registration counties, registration county and Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in Scotland ...
, Scotland. It is located south-east of
Clackmannan
Clackmannan ( ; , perhaps meaning "Stone of Manau"), is a small town and civil parish set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Situated within the Forth Valley, Clackmannan is south-east of Alloa and south of Tillicoultry. The town is within ...
, by the
Kincardine railway line. The village is a
conservation area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewoo ...
, designated by Clackmannanshire Council.
Kennet House, the seat of the Bruces of Kennet, was located to the west of the village (). The house was built or rebuilt in the 1790s for the judge
Robert Bruce, Lord Kennet
Robert Bruce of Kennet, Clackmannanshire, Kennet, Lord Kennet Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (24 December 1718 – 8 April 1785) was a Scottish advocate, legal scholar and judge.
Life
Bruce was born in Edinburgh on 28 December 1 ...
. His descendant, the politician and banker
Alexander Bruce, established a claim to the forfeited title of
Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Lord Balfour of Burleigh, in the County of Kinross, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1607 for Sir Michael Balfour.
He was succeeded by his daughter, Margaret, his only child. She married Robert Arnot, who assumed the su ...
in 1868. The house was demolished in 1967.
Between 1905 and 1961,
coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal i ...
was mined at the Brucefield Colliery, located just to the north of Kennet (). In 1948, 75,000 tons of coal were extracted. A
brickworks
A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a clay pit, quar ...
on the site continued to operate into the 1960s.
References
External links
Vision of Britain - Kennet
Villages in Clackmannanshire
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