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.

Knap

Other OS name in the Parish of Dunkeswell

Historical Forms

  • Bantescnapp 1206 ChR

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is probably identical with Bantescnapp 1206 ChR . v. cnæpp .