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.

Knightwick

Major Settlement in the Parish of Knightwick

Historical Forms

  • Cnihtawic 964 BCS1135 12th
  • Cnihtewican 1023 KCD738 17th
  • Cnihtewic 1086 DB

Etymology

(Later forms are without interest.) The name means wic or dairy farm of the cnihts , v. cniht and cf. Knighton supra 52.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site