English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Chudleigh Knighton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Hennock

Historical Forms

  • Chenistetona 1086 DB
  • Knicheton 1285 FA
  • Knyghteton(e) 1299 Ass 1382 Exon
  • Knyghton juxta Chudlegh 1464 IpmR
  • Knytteton 1305 Ipm
  • Knyghton Hethfeld 1488 ADiii 1492 Ipm

Etymology

v. cniht , tun . Knyghton Hethfeld is probably the area of waste land now called Knighton Heath, v. Heathfield supra 265. It is near Chudleigh infra 489.

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