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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Knowbury like this:
KNOWBURY, a village in Cainham parish, and a chapelry partly also in Bitterley parish, Salop. The village stands 4 miles E of Ludlow r. station, and has a post office under Ludlow.—The chapelry was constituted in 1840. Pop. in 1861, 655. Houses, 142. Pop. of the Cainham portion, 387. Houses, 82. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £100. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is modern.
Knowbury is now part of SHROPSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SHROPSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Knowbury itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Knowbury in Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24088
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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