Place:East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England

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East Knoyle is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, in the southwest of England. The village lies just west of the A350 road about 9 miles (14 km) south of Warminster and 5 miles (8 km) north of Shaftesbury, Dorset. It is the birthplace of Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

The parish includes the hamlets of Holloway, Milton, The Green, Underhill and Upton. Milton and Upton were both chapelries. The large town of Hindon was also a chapelry of East Knoyle.

Unusually for England, parish registers survive from 1538 (the year regulations were made that parish registers should be kept). The originals are held in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article East Knoyle.

Research Tips

• Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 11, pp82-103 - Parish: East Knoyle". British History Online. University of London. The chapter covers East Knoyle and its large chapelry of Hindon. There is a map of the parish circa 1840.
• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Wiltshire parishes which have parish register transcripts online, quite often from very early dates. However, reading the early ones requires skill and patience. Transcriptions should also be in FamilySearch.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Wiltshire.