Knowstone
Major Settlement in the Parish of Knowstone
Historical Forms
- Chenutdestana, Chenuestan 1086 DB
- Cnutstan 1220 FF 1238 Ass
- Cnuston' 1242 Fees793
- Cnouston 1276 Ipm
- Knouston Beaupel 1285 FA
- Cnudstone 1243 Exon
- Cnodston 1279 Exon
- Knotstone 1318 Ch
- Knoudestone 1360 Exon
- Botreaux Molland otherwise…Knowston 1489 Ipm
Etymology
'Cnut 's stone,' Cnut being a Scand pers. name more familiar in the form Canute , cf. Knuston (Nth), Cnutestone DB, Cnoteston 1220 Fees. The 'stone' may have been at the place called Rock (6″) just east of the village. The subsoil in the parish is rock (Kelly). Robert Beaupel (i.e. 'fine skin') held the manor in 1276 (Ipm) and the family name is preserved in Beaple's Barton, Wood, Moor, Hill and Combe.