Knowl Hill Berkshire Family History Guide

Knowl Hill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1842 from Hurley Ancient Parish and Wargrave Ancient Parish. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1842
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1842

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KNOWL-HILL, a village in Hurley parish, and a chapelry partly also in Wargrave parish, Berks. The village stands 3 miles NE of Twyford r. station, and 4½ WSW of Maidenhead; and has a post office under Reading. The chapelry was constituted in 1842. Pop. in 1861, 850. Houses, 176. Pop.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Berkshire, Knowl Hill – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions in St Peters church, churchyard and graveyard, Knowl Hill, Berkshire : including surname index and transcript of burial register
Author: Boulton, Carolyn

England, Berkshire, Knowl Hill – Church records ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions in St Peters church, churchyard and graveyard, Knowl Hill, Berkshire : including surname index and transcript of burial register
Author: Boulton, Carolyn

England, Berkshire, Knowl Hill – History ( 1 )
The five villages of Hurley parish : a pictorial record
Author: Burfitt, David

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Berkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Cookham; Wokingham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
  • Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Reading
  • Poor Law Union: Cookham
  • Hundred: Beynhurst; Wargrave
  • Province: Canterbury