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.

Knaworthy

Early-attested site in the Parish of Frithelstock

Historical Forms

Knaworthi 1330,1333 SR

Knavery 1573 Deed

Etymology

For w > v cf. Introd. xxxv.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Frithelstock