sentences:  The name Kinlet, a combination of Kin (royal) and Lett (district), comes from the time of Queen Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the confessor, who held the knoll at Kinlet.The earliest known human activity was the scatter of flints near Catsley in the centre of the parish, south of Kinlet village.The parish as it is today, was once two smaller parishes, Kinlet in the north and Earnwood in the south.