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.

Knighton Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Woodford

Historical Forms

  • Knyghtonfeild in Chingford t.Eliz LP

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is so named c. 1640 (ER xiv) . It is not far from the Chingford boundary and is probably to be associated with Knyghtonfeild in Chingford (t. ElizLP ) , part of the possessions of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement