Knowl Hill, Berkshire
Historical Description
Knowl Hill, an ecclesiastical district in Berks, formed out of parts of the civil parishes of Hurley and Wargrave. It is situated 3 miles NE of Twyford station on the G.W.R., and 4½ WSW of Maidenhead, and has a post and money order office under Twyford (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Little-wick Green. The ecclesiastical district was formed in 1842. Population, 712. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £100 with residence. The church, erected in 1840, is an ivy-clad building of red brick consisting of chance], nave, and western tower and spire.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1840.
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter (parish church)
The church of St. Peter, built in 1840, is a plain edifice of red brick with stone dressings, almost entirely covered with ivy and consisting of chancel and nave and a western tower with spire, containing 2 bells: the chancel, added in 1871, is in the Early English style: the fine organ was erected in 1875, as a memorial to the Rev. J. E. Austen Leigh, a former vicar: the clock in the tower was given in memory of Major Court; with two exceptions all the windows are stained: there are 400 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Knowl Hill from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Berkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Knowl Hill 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 Berkshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Berkshire 1532, 1566, and 1665-6 is available online.