Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Chenoltune, Chenoltone 1086 DB

• Chenoltona Exon

• Cnoltun 12 SherC

• Cnolton(') 1212 Fees 1236 Cl 1244 Ass 1340 NI

• Knolton(') 1242 Ch 1243 Fees 1244 Ass 1863 Hutch3

• Knollton 1618 Map

• Cnouton(') 1205 P 1237 Ch 1239 Cl 1244 Ass

• Cnowton 1237 Ch

• Gnolton 1214 ClR

• Chinouton' 1217 ClR

• Cnelton 1244 Ass

• Chnoldon' Cheltun' 1250 Fees

• Knowlton or Knowlhill 1795 Boswell

Etymology

'Farm by the hillock', from cnoll (v. prec.) and tūn (once replaced by or confused with dūn 'hill'). The DB spellings, and the 13th cent, spellings in Cnou -, Gnol -, Chinou -, show AN influence, cf. Church Knowle 187, v. ANInfl 49, 137, 146. This place gave name to the hundred, v. supra .