Kennet is a small former coal mining hamlet, located less than a mile south-east of Clackmannan, by the Stirling - Alloa - Kincardine railway line. The Kennet Village area of Kennet has been designated as a conservation area. A former mining village, initially inhabited chiefly by the miners employed in the local coal-works of Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who once owned the Kennet estate in this neighbourhood.
Kennet House, the seat of the Bruces of Kennet, was once located to the west and south of the village. The house was built or rebuilt in 1793-1794 for the judge Robert Bruce, Lord Kennet. The house was demolished in 1967 by the Army, following a period of ownership by the Co-op. The former lodge house still survives on the edge of Clackmannan.
Between 1905 and 1961 coal was mined at the Brucefield Colliery, located just to the north of Kennet. In 1948, 75,000 tons of coal were extracted. Brucefield Brickworks continued to operate on the site into the 1960s.
Kennet currently consists of roughly twenty houses to the east which were a miner's row (called Kennet village), Built between 1793 and 1804. The row houses were renovated in 1981. One detached building sits on its own to the north of the street called kennet village, forming the beginning of a potential new street, however access is limited. A further two houses sit on the Kennet village street itself.
There are eight detached houses on Meadow Grove, a street built back in the early 2000's.
The old school building was sold off and renovated as a home.
There are roughly five houses to the west of the old school building (called Kennet Cottages). There were previously buildings in this area.
There is a vehicle repair business - Foz Sports have a body shop sited between meadow grove and Kennet village. These buildings include the bodyshop works and a detached house. Foz Sports have also taken over the former mechanical repair shop buildings of A Manson & sons, on the eastern edge of Kennet, the forecourt of which was once a small petrol station.