Knook
| Knook | |
|---|---|
 River Wylye and Knook Manor | |
  Knook Location withinWiltshire | |
| Population | 77 (in 2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | ST938419 |
| Civil parish |
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| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Warminster |
| Postcode district | BA12 |
| Dialling code | 01985 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Parish Council |
Knookis a small village andcivil parishinWiltshire,England. The village lies to the north of theRiver Wylyeat the edge ofSalisbury Plain,about4+1⁄2miles (7 km) southeast ofWarminster,close to theA36 roadtoSalisbury.
History
[edit]TheIron Agehillfortknown asKnook Castleis in the adjacent parish ofUpton Lovell.
TheDomesday Bookof 1086 records themanorof Knook asCunuche,with 19 households.[2]The entry mentions a woman of the manor called Leofgyth "who made gold embroideries for thekingandqueenand still does so ".[3]
Much of the presentmanor housewas built in 1637.[4]It isGrade I listed.[5]
An army camp was established in 1914 to the north of the village, on the other side of the main road near the junction with theChitterneroad. The site is now part of theSalisbury Plain Training Areaand continues in use as Knook Camp, providing temporary accommodation in many small buildings and extending north intoHeytesburyparish.[6]
Imperial Gazetteerentry
[edit]John Marius Wilson'sImperial Gazetteer of England and Wales(1870–1872) described Knook as follows:
KNOOK, a parish, with a village, in Warminster district, Wilts; on the river Wiley, the Old Ditch way, and theSomerset and Weymouth railway,1 mile SE ofHeytesburyr. station. Post town, Heytesbury, underBath.Acres,1,440. Real property, £1,342. Pop., 208. Houses, 46. The property belongs chiefly toLord Heytesbury.Knook Castle is an ancient single ditched entrenchment, of about 2 acres; is supposed to have been originally a British village, and afterwards a Roman summer camp; and has yieldedRoman coins.Traces of another ancient British village are to the N. "The site of these villages," saysSir R.Hoare,"is decidedly marked by great cavities and a black soil; and the attentive eye may easily trace out the lines of houses and the streets, or rather the hollow ways, conducting to them. Numerous tumuli and barrows are in the neighbourhood." Thelivingis a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Heytesbury, in thediocese of Salisbury.The church, in Aug., 1866 was about to be repaired.[7]
Parish church
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The oldest parts of theChurch of England parish churchof St Margaret are earlyNorman,from the late 11th century.[8]They include decorative carved stonework, which is notable in thetympanumto an arched doorway.[9][10]St Margret's was adependent chapelryof thecollegiate churchof SS. Peter and Paul,Heytesbury.[11]A monumental inscription at St Margaret's dating from 1592 asks"Of your cheriti praye for ye soule of Iohn Morgan Gentleman and Elinor his wife with all thaire progenitors and all Christians amen".[12]
The church wasrestoredbyWilliam Butterfieldin 1874–6, and was designated asGrade I listedin 1968.[13]Parish registerssurvive from 1687 and are kept at theWiltshire and Swindon History Centre.[14]The benefice was united withHeytesbury-with-Tytheringtonin 1885,[15]and today the church is served by the Upper Wylye Valley team.[16]
Local government
[edit]Knook, together with the parish ofHeytesbury,elects a parish council calledHeytesbury, Imber and Knook.[17]Local government services are provided byWiltshire Council.
References
[edit]- ^"Wiltshire Community History – Census".Wiltshire Council.Retrieved19 February2015.Note ONS raw data (as opposed to this County Council figure) is for an area 'too small to publish all data for reasons of confidentiality of living people' its parish data being combined withHeytesburyinto output area E00163602 so more demographic statistics will become available in a few decades from 2011
- ^Knookin theDomesday Book
- ^Wood 1986,p. 10.
- ^Pevsner & Cherry 1975,p. 283.
- ^Historic England."The Manor House, Knook (1364327)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved19 February2015.
- ^Baker, John (3 February 2021)."Old army huts to be replaced".Wiltshire Times.Retrieved6 February2021.
- ^Knookat visionofbritain.org.uk
- ^"Church of St. Margaret, Knook".Wiltshire Community History.Wiltshire Council.Retrieved19 February2015.
- ^Fletcher 1975,p. 557.
- ^"St Margaret, Knook".Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture.King's College London.Retrieved10 December2017.
- ^Pugh & Crittall 1956,pp. 389–392.
- ^Marshall,p. 177.
- ^Historic England."Church of St Margaret, Knook (1285068)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved18 February2015.
- ^Knook at genuki.org.uk
- ^"No. 25450".The London Gazette.10 March 1885. p. 1070.
- ^"St Margaret, Knook".The Upper Wylye Valley Team.26 August 2017.Retrieved10 December2017.
- ^"Parish of Heytesbury, Imber, Knook and Tytherington".Retrieved19 February2015.
Sources
[edit]- Fletcher, Banister(1975).Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture.p. 557.[clarification needed]
- Marshall, Peter.Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England.p. 177.[clarification needed]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus;Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975) [1963].Wiltshire.The Buildings of England(2nd ed.). Harmondsworth:Penguin Books.pp. 282–283.ISBN0-14-071026-4.
- Pugh, R.B.;Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956). "The Collegiate Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Heytesbury".A History of the County of Wiltshire.Victoria County History.Vol. 3. pp. 389–392.
- Wood, Michael(1986).Domesday: a Search for the Roots of England.London: BBC Publications. p. 10.
External links
[edit]- Heytesbury Imber & Knook Parish Council
- "Knook".Wiltshire Community History.Wiltshire Council.Retrieved19 February2015.
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