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Survey of English Place-Names

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Knight's In The Bottom

Other OS name in the Parish of Hooke

Etymology

( 1904 6″ ) , cf. Knights Bottom Inn , Garden , Knights Common 1839TA , v. botm , for the surname cf. Knight 's Hill in Powerstock par . infra ; there is another ( late ) instance of this name ( perhaps recalling this one ) in Chickerell par . ( v. Addenda ) .