West Knighton, Dorset
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West Knighton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of the county town Dorchester. It has an 11th-century church and a village pub. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 375.[1]
The village name derives from the Old English cniht and tūn, meaning the village or farmstead of the young men or retainers.[2] At Little Mayne Farm Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of the village is the site of a deserted medieval village, which was recorded in the Domesday Book as Maine[3] and in 1201 was known as Parva Maene.[4]
West Knighton parish historically developed out of the amalgamation of four medieval settlements within the ancient hundred of Cullifordtree:[5] the existing main village, the previously mentioned Parva Maene, another medieval settlement at Friarmayne to the south—also deserted and now within neighbouring Broadmayne civil parish[6]—and the fourth at Lewell to the north (now just a farmhouse).[7]
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- ↑ http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY7286/mayne/ Open Domesday: Mayne
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- ↑ [1] Open Domesday: Cullifordtree
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