You searched for "WEST KNIGHTON" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 13 possible matches we have found for you:

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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 "WEST KNIGHTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BROAD-CHALK	Wiltshire	Knighton and Stoke-Farthing. Acres, 6,904. Real property, with Bower-Chalk, £9,812. Pop., 796. Houses, 164. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged once to the Gawens; and was given to Wilton Abbey. An ancient camp, of 5 acres, occurs at Bury-Orchard; and a barrow, called Gawen's Barrow, is near the camp. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Bower-Chalk, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £336.* Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church belongs to the time of Henry VIII., with a Norman doorway	Imperial
  BROADMAYNE, or Broadmoigne	Dorset	living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of West Knighton, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is not good.	Imperial
  DORCHESTER	Dorset	West Stafford, West Knighton, Broadmayne, Warmwell, Woodsford, Tincleton, Tolpuddle, Burlestone, Admiston, and Dewlish; the sub-district of Maiden-Newton, containing	Imperial
  Friar Mayne	Dorset	Friar Mayne , hamlet, West Knighton par., Dorset, 4 ½ miles SE. of Dorchester.	Bartholomew
  Fryer Mayne	Dorset	Fryer Mayne , hamlet, West Knighton par., Dorset, 3 miles SE. of Dorchester.	Bartholomew
  FRYER-MAYNE	Dorset	FRYER-MAYNE , a hamlet in West Knighton parish, Dorset; 3¼ miles SE of Dorchester.	Imperial
  Knighton, West	Dorset	Knighton, West , par., Dorset, 4 miles SE. of Dorchester, 2339 ac., pop. 312.	Bartholomew
  KNIGHTON (WEST)	Dorset	KNIGHTON (WEST) , a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; near the Southwestern railway, 4 miles SE of Dorchester. It includes the hamlets	Imperial
  LEICESTER	Leicestershire	LEICESTER , -popularly LESTER, -a town, six parishes, two sub-districts, and a district in Leicestershire. The town stands on the	Imperial
  Lewell	Dorset	Lewell , hamlet, West Knighton par., Dorset, 3 m. E. of Dorchester; in vicinity is the seat of Lewell Lodge .	Bartholomew
  LONDON AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY	London	West Riding Junction line, contemplated in notices for the session of 1867. The Northwestern has also amalgamated the Conway and Llanrwst; leased the Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny, the Llandudno, the Knighton	Imperial
  Mayne, Little	Dorset	Mayne, Little , hamlet, West Knighton par., Dorset, 3 miles SE. of Dorchester.	Bartholomew
  MAYNE (LITTLE)	Dorset	MAYNE (LITTLE) , a hamlet in West Knighton parish, Dorset; 3¼ miles SE of Dorchester. Real property, £251.	Imperial

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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