Knock is a small village in the

Westmorland and Furness Westmorland and Furness is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Cumbria, England. The economy is mainly focused on tourism around both the Lake District and Cumbria Coast, shipbuilding and the Royal Port of Barrow, Royal ...

district of

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, England, and 1.9 km northwest of the larger village of

Dufton Dufton is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of Westmorland, it lies in the Eden Valley and below Great Dun Fell. It is mostly around 180m above sea level. At the 2011 census the parish had a population of 201 ...

and 3.1 km south of the village of Milburn. It lies midway between

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to the north and the town of

Appleby-in-Westmorland Appleby-in-Westmorland is a market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, with a population of 3,048 at the 2011 Census. Crossed by the River Eden, Appleby is the county town of the historic county of Westmorland. ...

to the south. Knock is situated 1 km east of the small hamlet and farm, Knock Cross.

History, geography and etymology

The place-name 'Knock' is first attested in a Yorkshire

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from between 1150 and 1162, where it appears as ''Chonoc-salchild''. It appears as ''Knok'' in an ''

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'' of 1323. The name means 'hillock', from the Brittonic ''*cnuc'',

Old Irish Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (, Ogham, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; ; ; or ), is the oldest form of the Goidelic languages, Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts. It was used from 600 to 900. The ...

''cnocc'' or Irish ''cnoc''; an apparent reference to the nearby Knock Pike, which is 1,306 feet high, and can be seen in the photo to the right. Circa 1870, it had a population of 197 as recorded in the

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. Knock is also shown on

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's 1770 map of Westmorland. Knock once had a

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chapel, but that was closed and the chapel at Dufton was renamed "Dufton with Knock Methodist Church". The former chapel in Knock was gutted in a fatal fire in April 2018 that killed two people.

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References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Long Marton
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) Villages in Cumbria Long Marton {{Cumbria-geo-stub

History, geography and etymology

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