Knipton

Julian P. GUFFOGG has a photograph of All Saints' churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2013.

Richard CROFT has a photograph of some HARRIS family headstones on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.

• The parish was in the Denton sub-district of the Grantham (Lincoln) Registration District.
   
• After the Poor Law Union was re-organized in 1891, the parish was in the Grantham North sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
   
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 587
1861	R.G. 9 / 2348
1871	R.G. 10 / 3356
1891	R.G. 12 / 2583

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints and is built of stone.
   
• The church was built before 1563.
   
• The church was restored in 1846.
   
• The church seats 220.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2008.
   
• J. HANNAH-BRIGGS also has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2013.
   

• The church was in the rural deanery of Framland (first portion).
   
• The Anglican parish register dates from 1562 for baptisms and burials. Marriages start in 1563. The register contains burials of Parliamentary soldiers between 1643 and 1645.
   
• Knipton marriages from 1562-1837 are in Pallot's Marriage Index.
   
• The Baptists built a chapel here prior to 1912.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Knipton Baptist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Denton sub-district of the Grantham (Lincoln) Registration District.
   
• After the Poor Law Union was re-organized in 1891, the parish was in the Grantham North sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
   

Knipton is both a parish and a village about 112 miles north of London, 10 miles northeast of Melton Mowbray and 7 miles south-west from Grantham in Lincolnshire. The Knipton River runs through the west side of the parish. The parish covers some 1,270 acres and includes the northern shore of the Knipton Reservoir.

The village is on the banks of the River Devon. If you are planning a visit:

• The village is just northwest off of the A607 trunk road between Grantham and Melton Mobray.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016. If you can, stop in when they are open and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Knipton to another place.

You can see the administrative areas in which Knipton has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

• John SUTTON has a photograph of the Manners Arms on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010.
   
• Robert HARVEY provides a photograph of inside the Manners Arms on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2018.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the village pump on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK824311 (Lat/Lon: 52.871076, -0.77727), Knipton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
• Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2008. The memorial has since been enclosed with a fence and a flagpole added alongside it.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the War Memorial with the flagpole on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of the enclosed War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010.

The parish register contains entries recording the burial of Parliamentary soldiers.

In the parish church is a brass mural tablet to the memory of Lt.-Col. Lord Robert MANNERS C.M.G., D.S.O. killed in action in 1917. Robert William Orlando MANNERS of the Northumberland Fusiliers regiment is buried in the Huts Cemetery, Dikkebus. He was half-brother to the Duke of Rutland.

In 1925 Lt.-Col. H. A. W. WEBER resided at "The Cottage".

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicester county and it became a modern Civil Pairsh when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the eastern division of the county in the ancient Framland Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1936, this parish was abolished and the area used to enlarge Belvoir Civil Parish.
   

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Grantham Poor Law Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Belvior petty sessional hearings.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	262
1831	322
1851	386
1861	369
1871	338
1881	327
1891	328
1901	331
1911	280
1921	281
1931	273

• A Public Elementary School (National School) was built here in 1850 and enlarged in 1868. That building is now the Village Hall.