Kniveton

Kniveton is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at the centre of the village on every fourth Monday in the mid morning.

The Ashbourne Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of a portion of St. Michael's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2016.

• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• This place was originally a chapelry to St Oswald's church in Ashbourne.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael. (The full name is "St. Michael and All Angels".)
   
• The church appears to be of 13th century Norman origin.
   
• The church has a "low tower" with a "small pinnacle spire".
   
• The church was restored in 1870.
   
• The church is a grade I listed building with British Heritage.
   
• The church seats 150.
   
• Mick GARRATT has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.
   
• Jo TURNER has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.
   
• Mick GARRATT also has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1591 and is in good condition.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built here in 1832. It is a Grade II listed building.
   
• Mick GARRATT has a photograph of the Primitive Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.
   
• Josie CAMPBELL also has a photograph of the Primitive Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2008.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here before 1857.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.

"KNIVETON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 3½ miles N.E. of Ashbourne, its railway station and post town. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the cotton mills. Lime-burning is carried on. The land is chiefly rich pasture. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £64. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient edifice, with a low spired tower. The parochial charities produce about £11 per annum, including the endowment of Hurd's school, &c. There is a National school."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

The parish lies 150 miles north of London and 6 miles south-west of Wirkswirth. The parish covers 1,974 acres. The village is mostly within the Kniveton Conservation Area originally established in 1998.

Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of the Village Hall and School on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2006.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Kniveton entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Kniveton entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Kniveton to another place.

• The parish has two Round Barrows which have been partially excavated.
   
• This place is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Cheniueston.
   
• The parish held a Feast on the first Sunday after October 11th.
   
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Kniveton by Barbarann AYARS.
   
• Peter BARR has a photograph of the Red Lion Inn on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
   
• Neil THEASBY also has a photograph of the Red Lion Inn on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2016.
   
• The Red Lion Inn has been around for at least a century. These are the proprietors found in various Directories:
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK207501 (Lat/Lon: 53.047767, -1.692671), Kniveton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

There is a War Memorial plynth in the parish churchyard.

Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of the churchyard with the War Memorial on the right on the Geo-graph site, taken in November, 2006.

These are the names from the War Memorial in the churchyard:

In the 1086 Domesday Book this place is recorded as Cheniveton, from the Old English "farmstead of a woman named Cengifu".

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Derby county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Kniveton Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but please do NOT ask them to do family history searches for you.
   
• District governance was provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

• Bastardy cases were heard at the Ashbourne petty session hearings every Saturday.
   
• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Ashbourn Poorlaw Union.
   
• John HARD, by his will, dated 31st December, 1715, left 20s. yearly for distribution to the poor.
   
• The Reverend Francis GIBSON in 1818 left £6 and 10s was left yearly for clothing for the poor.
   
• Mike SPENCER advises (2006) that: "Kniveton was one of the parishes where the principal people of the village signed an agreement making sure no outsiders gained a legal Settlement there, and thereby become chargeable to the parish."

• In 1715 John HURD gave land for the endowment of a school at Kniveton.
   
• A church school was built in 1861.
   
• Kniveton CE Primary School currently serves the village and the surrounding rural community.