In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Knowbury like this:
KNOWBURY, a village in Cainham parish, and a chapelry partly also in Bitterley parish, Salop. The village stands 4 miles E of Ludlow r. station, and has a post office under Ludlow.—The chapelry was constituted in 1840. Pop. in 1861, 655. Houses, 142. Pop. of the Cainham portion, 387. Houses, 82. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £100. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is modern.
Additional information about this locality is available for Caynham
Knowbury through time
Knowbury is now part of South Shropshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Shropshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Knowbury itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Knowbury in South Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24088
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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