Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Cnolle (2 ×), Chenolle, Glole 1086 DB

• Canolla Exon

• Cnoll(e) 1181–2 P 1202 Cur 1340 NI

• Cnol 1204 ClR

• Cnnolle 1291 Tax

• Cnolla 14 Mansel

• Knoll(e) 1202 Cur c.1586 Tres

• Knoll(e) in Purbeck 1544 DCMDeed

• Knowle 1621 Mansel

• Churic(h)cnoll(a) 14 Mansel

• Churechecnolle m14 Mansel

• Church(e)cnolle 1346 Mansel

• Cherchecnolle m14 ib

• Chirchecnolle m14 Mansel

• Chirchecnoll(e) 14 Mansel

• Chircheknoll(e) 14 1576 Saxton

• Chirche Knole 1604 Mansel

• Chircheknowle 1658 ib

Etymology

'Hill top', v. cnoll , cf. Knowle Hill infra , with the later addition 'Church' perhaps to distinguish it from Bucknowle infra , v. cirice , cf. Isle of Purbeck supra . There was a priest here (at Glole ) in 1086 DB (VCHDo 389), and the church is mentioned in 1237 Pat, 1261 Ipm, 1263 Cl, v. St Peter's Church infra . For the DB spellings, cf. Knowlton in Woodlands par. infra and v. ANInfl 49, 122, 137. A different identification of DB Glole , with Lutton Gwyle in Steeple par. infra , is proposed by DBGazetteer 122; Glole follows Stiple in the DB text, but the identification is formally unlikely.