Church Knowle            

 

Church Knowle is a parish in the Isle of Purbeck and is four miles S.E. of Wareham and about a mile west of Corfe Castle. In 1898 the acreage was 2,920 with various soil and overlying chalk.

The Saxons named the village 'cnolle' which signifies a top of a hill and in the Domesday Book the village was called Glole.

The 13th century church of St Peter which has been partly rebuilt is in the early English style and consists of a nave and chancel and a square unbuttressed tower. It has stone walls, a stone slate roof with coped gables and the tower which was rebuilt in 1740 using the old stones has a trinity of bells.

The population in 1891 was 581. In 1991 it was 329.

Listen to the bells of St Peter and read the history of the church displayed for the public by the church.

Photo displayed with kind permission of Chris Rumbold

 

The Online Parish Clerk for Church Knowle is Sue Mills

Any enquiries please contact by email at the following:

I am an unpaid volunteer willing to assist others with their genealogical research
and should in no way be confused with the County Council appointed Parish Clerk.

I live in Western Australia.

 

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SWANAGE - LANGTON MATRAVERS - WORTH MATRAVERS - STUDLAND - CHURCH KNOWLE
 AND MY PERSONAL RESEARCH

 

 


 

  16th and 17th Century Records :

 

 


  Parish Registers :

  • Marriages - 1560 - 1841
           Transcription - Barry Chinchen

1560 - 1841
 

  • Burials - 1558 - 1841
          Transcription - Barry Chinchen


        1558 - 1728,  1729 - 1841
 

 

 


  Militia List :

  • Some Purbeck Militia Lists - 1759
     

  • Purbeck Militia List - 1798
    by Kim Parker
     

  • Church Knowle Militia List - 1798

 

 


  Census Returns :

  • Full transcription of 1841 census - Page 1 

  • Full transcription of 1851 census - Page 1

  • Full transcription of 1861 census - Page 1

  • Full transcription of 1871 census - Page 1

 

 


  Wills :

  • Index of PCC Wills from the period 1613-1858 on
    The National Archives
     

  • Abstracts of  Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills - Page 1   
     

  • George Fry's Dorset Administration List - PCC    
     

  • Calendar of Wills and Administrations - Archdeaconry and Consistory Court - 1668 - 1850
     

  • Abstracts of Archdeaconry Court of Dorset Wills - Page 1
     

  • Purbeck Miscellaneous Wills - Page 1
     by  Richard Wiltshire 
                                

 


  Directories :

  • Church Knowle Trade Directories Index - 1849 - 1939
    By John Patrick   

  • Post Office Directory - 1867

  • Kelly's Directory - 1895 

  • Kelly's Directory - 1915

 

 


  Maps :

  • Tresswell's Map C 1586
     

  • Survey Map - 1886

 

 


  Photos :

  • Memorial Inscriptions - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

 

 


  This and That :

  • Lumey - an extract from Roy Martin's book

  • Peak District Mines - 1896

  • Dorchester Prison Admission and Discharge Registers, 1782 - 1901

 

 


  Suggested Reading :

 

 


  Researchers :    

  • List of those researching in Purbeck
    To be added to the list contact

 

 


  Links :

  • Dorchester Gaol Registers - 1782 - 1901 - Ancestry

  • 19th Century Tithe Map
    and Apportionments  - Ancestry (email me for look ups)

  • List of Dorset Mines - 1908

  • Obituaries from the Fortnightly Returns of the
    Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and
    Allied Trades of England and Wales

 

 

 



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