Knapwell

Other current and historical names

Chenepwelle

Parish/Community: Knapwell
District/Borough: South Cambridgeshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°14'55"N 0°2'49"W
Eastings/Northings: 533419, 262965
OS Grid: TL334629
Mapcode Local: GBR K55.T3T
Mapcode Global: VHGMC.4RG0

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Knapwell within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Knapwell in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Knapwell, par., Cambridgeshire, in SW. of co., 3½ miles NE. of Caxton, 2000 ac., pop. 188.

Knapwell in the Domesday Book

A village in Papworth hundred, in the county of Cambridgeshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Ramsey St Benedict
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Ramsey
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: 4 Freemen (subinfeudated); Abbey of Ramsey
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £6 in 1070; £6 in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 4 smallholders; 4 cottagers; 4 freemen; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs (8 plough lands)
- Meadow: 2 ploughs

British Place Names

Knapwell, Cambridgeshire

Knapwell is a village in Cambridgeshire

Knapwell in historic gazetteers

Knapwell in the Domesday Book