Many
years ago there were approximately 300
people in Knook when many of the weavers and cloth workers of
Heytesbury lived there.
There
used to be two farms, but today there is only one working
farm, the other farm buildings were carefully converted to
six houses and the land was sold to an adjoining enterprise.Knook Horse Hill and Knook Down are both in East Farm
lands.
The Manor House, on the banks of the river Wylye,
between the river and the church, is a Tudor building of
stone with gabled ends, gabled porch and stone mullioned
windows and, since its restoration, is a very attractive
house. This was restored in 1924 by Mary Esther Crichton-Maitland
and Margaret Crichton-Maitland.The two sisters bought Knook Manor and lived there
until 1961.
