Knowle, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Knowle, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Hamp-ton-in-Arden parish, Warwickshire. The village stands on a hill, adjacent to the Birmingham and Warwick Canal, 1½ mile NE of Knowle station on the G.W.R, 3¼ miles SE of Solihull, and 9¼ SE of Birmingham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Birmingham. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1859. Population, 1818. Springfield Hall and Knowle Hall are chief residences. Grim-shaw Hall, a picturesque 17tb-centnry manor house, is now a farmhouse. Roman coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £120 with residence. The church is chiefly Perpendicular, of interesting character, had a chantry chapel founded in the time of Richard II., and contains a fine carved oak screen, a number of grotesquely carved oak stalls, and several sedilia. There are a Congregational chapel and an institute with reading-room and library. The Midland Counties Lunatic Asylum is in this parish.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
| Civil parish | Hampton in Arden | |
| Hundred | Hemlingford | |
| Poor Law union | Solihull |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Knowle:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1682-1975 | 1682-1984 | 1682-1992 |
Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Knowle from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Knowle 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 Warwickshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.