LOCAL HISTORY - KNOOK

Many years ago there were aproximately 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.

Link to  TYTHERINGTON