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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  KNOTTINGLEY	Manor	PONTEFRACT AP/CP (Parish-level Unit)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "KNOTTINGLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BIRKIN		Knottingley r. station, and 7½ SW of Selby. Acres, 2,064. Real property, £3,515. Pop., 168. Houses	Imperial
  CROFTON		Knottingley railway, 1½ mile SE of Oakenshaw r. station, and 3¾ SE by E of Wakefield. It includes	Imperial
  DARRINGTON		Knottingley and Doncaster railway, 2 miles S of Knottingley r. station, and 3 SE of Pontefract; and includes the hamlet	Imperial
  FEATHERSTONE		Knottingley and Wakefield railway, 2½ miles W by S of Pontefract; and has a station on the railway, and a post	Imperial
  Ferrybridge		Yorkshire, 1½ mile NW. of Knottingley sta.; P.O.; was the scene of a skirmish (1461) before the battle of Towton.	Bartholomew
  Ferry Bridge Junction		Ferry Bridge Junction , ry. sta., 1½ mile NW. of Knottingley sta., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire. See FERRYRRIDGE.	Bartholomew
  FRYSTONE (Ferry)		Knottingley r. station, and 2 NE of Pontefract; and is said to be partly in Pontefract parish. Ferry-Frystone parish	Imperial
  GOOLE		Knottingley, 3½ miles SSW of Howden. Acres, 4, 280. Real property, £17, 719. Pop. in 1851, 2, 960; in 1861, 3, 479. Houses	Imperial
  HENSALL		Knottingley and Goole railway, 3 miles WNW of Snaith; and has a station, with telegraph, on the railway. Acres, 1, 150. Real	Imperial
  Knottingley		Knottingley , township with ry. sta., Pontefract par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Aire, 2½ miles NE. and within	Bartholomew
  KNOTTINGLEY		KNOTTINGLEY , a small town, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Pontefract district, W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the river	Imperial
  Norton		Riding Yorkshire, 6½ miles SE. of Knottingley and 8½ miles N. of Doncaster, 2320 ac., pop. 589; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Pontefract (or Pomfret)		Knottingley townships), 7316 ac., pop. 15,332; P.O., T.O., 3 Banks, 3 newspapers. Market-day, Saturday . Pontefract ( i.e. , Broken Bridge	Bartholomew
  PONTEFRACT or Pomfret		Knottingley, East Knottingley, and East Hardwick are separate benefices. The sub-district excludes Knottingley township, but includes Castleford, Darrington, and Featherstone	Imperial
  Sherburn		Knottingley and 10¼ SW. of York by rail - par. (containing South Milford), 13,270 ac., pop. 4454; township, 4859 ac., pop.	Bartholomew
  YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY		Knottingley, branches to Scarborongh and Whitby, a line from Hull to Leeds, and several short branches. It is aggregately 263 miles	Imperial

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