KNAITH, a parish in Gainsborough district, Lincoln: adjacent to the river Trent at the boundary with Notts, and near the Lincoln and Gainsborough railway, 3 miles S by E of Gainsborough. Post town, Gainsborough. Acres, 1, 640. Real property, £2, 197. Pop., 105. Houses, 19. The manor belonged formerly to the Darcys and the Willoughbys; and belongs now to W. Hatton, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £40. Patron, W. Hatton, Esq. The church belonged to the Cistertian nunnery of Heyninges; is in the decorated English style; and has two windows ornamented with rich tracery.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))