West Knighton, Dorset
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Population | 375 [1] |
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OS grid reference | SY733875 |
District | West Dorset |
Shire county | Dorset |
Region | South West |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | Dorset |
Fire | Dorset |
Ambulance | South Western |
EU Parliament | South West England |
UK Parliament | West Dorset |
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West Knighton is a village and civil parish in south Dorset, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of the county town Dorchester. It has an 11th-century church and a village pub. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 375.[1]
The village name derives from the Old English cniht and tūn, meaning the village or farmstead of the young men or retainers.[2] At Little Mayne Farm 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southwest of the village is the site of a deserted medieval village, which was recorded in the Domesday Book as Maine[3] and in 1201 was known as Parva Maene.[4]
West Knighton parish historically developed out of the amalgamation of four medieval settlements within the ancient hundred of Cullifordtree:[5] the existing main village, the previously mentioned Parva Maene, another medieval settlement at Friarmayne to the south—also deserted and now within neighbouring Broadmayne civil parish[6]—and the fourth at Lewell to the north (now just a farmhouse).[7]
References
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- ↑ http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY7286/mayne/ Open Domesday: Mayne
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- ↑ http://domesdaymap.co.uk/hundred/cullifordtree/ Open Domesday: Cullifordtree
- ↑ Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map
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