Church Knowle
| Church Knowle | |||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 38 ′ N , 2 ° 5 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 303 | ||
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| Post town | Wareham (Dorset) | ||
| ZIP code section | BH20 | ||
| prefix | 1929 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South West England | ||
| Ceremonial county | Dorset | ||
| Unitary authority | Dorset | ||
Church Knowle is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the county of Dorset in the south of England .
Church Knowle is north of the Purbeck Hills , in the middle of the Isle of Purbeck. The village is within the parish of Corfe Castle . It is about two kilometers west of the village of Corfe Castle, nine kilometers west of Swanage and seven kilometers southeast of Wareham . The village has 303 inhabitants (as of 2001).
The Saxons called the village cnolle, which means 'top of a hill'. The village was mentioned as Chenolle in the Doomsday Book in 1086 .
The church from the 13th century is called Saint Peter's Church. The list of rectors contains 40 names and goes back to 1327. Until the middle of the 18th century, Saint Peter's was a perfect cruciform church with a choir, nave, west tower and a north and a south transept. Structural changes were made between 1833 and 1841.
Born on Bucknowle Farm outside Church Knowle and buried in the churchyard are the two brothers who brought the first steam locomotive to the Isle of Purbeck in 1866. William Joseph Pike and John William Pike were Purbeck Ball Clay dealers. They built a railway line from Ridge to Furzebrook around 1840. They later extended this to Creech.
Not far from Church Knowle is Blashenwell Farm Pit , an area of special scientific interest that was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1985 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hutchins' History of Dorset, third edition, 1973, William Shipp / James Whitworth Hodson, pp. 592-593, ISBN 0-85409-974-3
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum, the Pike Railway
- ↑ http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002484.pdf Notification Document SSSI (English)
