Knodishall
Sign in to saveKnodishall, a village in Suffolk, England, lies south-east of Saxmundham, south-west of Leiston, and 3 miles from the coast, in the Blything Hundred. Most dwellings are now at Coldfair Green; just a few remain in the original village by the parish Church of St Lawrence, which falls gently on the north side of the Hundred River valley. It is now an outlier of Knodishall Common, a settlement a mile to the south-east. The estimated parish population was 790 in 2019.
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Knodishall
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Knodishall Church - geograph.org.uk - 1045302.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church of St. Lawrence, Knodishall
- UK place.population
- 852
- UK place.population_ref
- 2011 Census
- UK place.post_town
- Saxmundham
- UK place.postcode_area
- IP
- UK place.postcode_district
- IP17
- UK place.civil_parish
- Knodishall
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Suffolk Coastal
- UK place.shire_district
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- East Suffolk
- Population
- +852
- Image
- Knodishall Church - geograph.org.uk - 1045302.jpg
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Manor of Knoddishall or Knottishall
- Parish
- Church
- Community
- Demographics
- Population trends
- Ethnicity
- Industry
- See also
- References
Knodishall, a village in Suffolk, England, lies south-east of Saxmundham, south-west of Leiston, and 3 miles from the coast, in the Blything Hundred. Most dwellings are now at Coldfair Green; just a few remain in the original village by the parish Church of St Lawrence, which falls gently on the north side of the Hundred River valley. It is now an outlier of Knodishall Common, a settlement a mile to the south-east. The estimated parish population was 790 in 2019.
==History== thumb|Map of Knodishall from the 20th Century The name of Knodishall is an Old English formation referring to the healh, the bower or retreat of a person named Cnott. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture draws the following observations for Knodishall ("Cnotesheala", "Cnenotessala") from the Domesday Survey of 1086:"Roger Bigod was the chief landholder here in 1086. Ranulf FitzWalter held 80 acres from him. Another 30 acres held by Roger Bigod had belonged before the Conquest to Edward the Confessor's free man, Boti. It had once been held by William Malet, while Robert Malet held the soke. An area of 80 acres in Knodishall formed an outlying estate or berewick of Bigod's manor in Saxmundham."