Church Knowle is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Brodle, Creech, Puddle Mill, and Bradle.
Alternative names: Knowle
Parish church: St. Peter
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1547
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1733
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
Adjacent Parishes
- East Holme
- Kingston
- Corfe Castle
- Steeple
- Kimmeridge
- Wareham
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
KNOWLE, CHURCH (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wareham and Purbeck, hundred of Hasilor, Wareham division of Dorset, 1 mile (W.) from Corfe-Castle; containing, with the tythings of Bradle and East Creech, 463 inhabitants, of whom 183 are in the tything of Church-Knowle. The parish forms a vale between two ranges of the Purbeck hills, and comprises 3427 acres, chiefly meadow and pasture land; about 1400 acres are common or waste: the soil in general is a stiff loamy clay. In the northern part are pits of pipeclay of the kind used in the manufacture of the Colebrook-Dale china; the produce is carried by means of a small railroad to the mouth of the Froome, and thence is shipped to various quarters. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £17. 17. 6.; net income, £285; patron, Lieut.-Col. Mansel. The church, which is in the early style of architecture, contains 400 sittings.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Census
Census returns for Church-Knowle, 1841-1891
Church Records
History
A Purbeck parish : Church Knowle Author: Tennent, R. J.
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Wareham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Wareham and Purbeck
- Hundred: Hasilor
- Province: Canterbury