Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Knook

Knook, par. and vil., Wilts, on river Wiley, 1 mile SE. of Heytesbury, 1440 ac., pop. 163; here is an earth-work known as Knook Castle, and on Knook Down are traces of two ancient British villages.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Knook Ch/CP       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Knook

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