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.

Knowehead

Other OS name in the Parish of Nicholforest

Historical Forms

  • Knowe 1767 ib

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is named from Knowe 1767 ib . and v. cnoll .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement