Kneesworth, Cambridgeshire
Historical Description
Kneesworth, a hamlet in Bassingbourne parish, Cambridgeshire, 2 miles NNW of Royston station on the G.N.R. It has a post office under Eoyston; money order and telegraph office, Bassingbourne. Acreage, 997; population, 801. Kneesworth House is a mansion about 300 years old, standing in well-wooded grounds of about 40 acres.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cambridgeshire | |
Civil parish | Bassingbourne | |
Hundred | Armingford | |
Poor Law union | Royston |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Kneesworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kneesworth)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Kneesworth are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cambridgeshire papers online:
- Cambridge Independent Press
- Cambridge Chronicle and Journal
- Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619 is available online.