Knighton on Teme explained

Country:England
Coordinates:52.3278°N -2.5436°W
Official Name:Knighton on Teme
Population:500
Static Image:St Michael's Church, Knighton on Teme - geograph.org.uk - 45749.jpg
Static Image Width:250px
Static Image Caption:St Michael's Church
Shire District:Malvern Hills
Shire County:Worcestershire
Region:West Midlands
Civil Parish:Knighton on Teme
Constituency Westminster:West Worcestershire
Postcode District:WR15
Postcode Area:WR
Post Town:TENBURY WELLS
Os Grid Reference:SO631714

Knighton on Teme is a village and civil parish once in the hundred of Doddingtree and now in the Malvern Hills District of the county of Worcestershire, England. Its name is first attested in an eleventh-century manuscript of a charter from c. 957 as Cnihtatun, meaning 'farm of the young men', and also mentions the River Teme.[1]

The parish consists of the village of Newnham Bridge and several small hamlets including Aston Court, Bickley, Cainey, Clethill, Cornwood, Deptcroft, Field Farm, Knighton, Maythorn, Newnham, Oxnall Farm, Stony Cross, Little London and Woodgates Green. It has a population of around 500 people and about 200 houses.[2] A Norman Romanesque church in the parish, St Michael and All Angels, is a Grade I listed building.

History

See also: History of Worcestershire. Domesday Book states the parish as having a priest in 1086.[3]

Notes and References

  1. A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Worcestershire, English Place-Name Society, 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927).
  2. Web site: Welcome to Knighton on Teme Parish Council. Davies. Pearl G. 2008. Worcestershire County Council. 28 December 2020.
  3. Web site: Welcome to Knighton on Teme Parish Council. Davies. Pearl G. 2008. Worcestershire County Council. 15 October 2019.