Knodishall

Knodishall, a village in Suffolk, England, lies 3.5 miles (6 km) south-east of Saxmundham, 1 mile (2 km) south-west of Leiston, and 3 miles from the coast. Most dwellings are now at Coldfair Green; just a few remain in the original village by the parish Church of St Lawrence,[1] which falls gently on the north side of the Hundred River valley. It is now an outlier of Knodishall Common, a settlement a mile to the south-east.[2] The estimated parish population was 790 in 2019.[3]

Knodishall

Church of St. Lawrence, Knodishall
Knodishall
Location within Suffolk
Population852 2011 Census
Civil parish
  • Knodishall
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSaxmundham
Postcode districtIP17
UK Parliament

History
Map of Knodishall from the 20th Century

"Roger Bigod was the chief landholder here in 1086. Ranulf FitzWalter held 80 acres from him. Another 30 acres held by Roger Bigod had belonged before the Conquest to Edward the Confessor's free man, Boti. It had once been held by William Malet, while Robert Malet held the soke. An area of 80 acres in Knodishall formed an outlying estate or berewick of Bigod's manor in Saxmundham. John Jenney is known to have been lord there at his death in 1460.

Benefice of Aldringham with Thorpe, Knodishall with Buxlow and Friston."[2]

According to the 2011 Census there were 418 males and 434 females living in the parish.[4] In the 1870s, it was noted:

"The parish contains also the village of Coldfair-Green, and the quondam parish of Buxlow; and is sometimes called Knodishall-cum-Buxlow. Acres 1,143. Real property, £3,173. Pop., 442. Houses, 100. The property is divided among a few. There are clay and sand pits. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Buxlow, in the diocese of Norwich."[5]

In 1865 the parish of Buxlow became part of Knodishall, which was then known as Knodishall-cum-Buxlow.[6]

Church

The parish church, dedicated to the 3rd-century martyr St Lawrence, stands a mile west of Knodishall, on top of a hill. There is no recorded date of foundation. It belonged to the original Leiston Abbey at Eastbridge (founded 1182), when Robert, probably the first abbot, ceded it to the canons of Butley Priory in exchange for the churches of St Andrew at Aldringham and St Margaret at Leiston.[7] The parish register begins in 1566.[8]

The fabric of the nave is of Norman date, with later medieval stained glass. The 15th-century tower has flint facings and was restored in the 19th century: it has one bell.[6] A vestry was added in 1838. The church also has a burial ground.[9] On 7 December 1966, the church became a Grade II* British listed building.[10]

Community
Knodishall Village Hall

The village is dispersed and close to both Leiston and Aldeburgh. It has a village shop, the Butchers Arms pub, a smallholding, a garage and Coldfair Green Primary School. The village expanded with the building of a small housing estate in the mid-1980s. There is also a local history group on Facebook, gathering information from the various families in the parish.

"Knodishall Local History Group is now [2017] in its fifth year. With the help of local people we have amassed a large digital collection of photos, audio recordings and documents relating to the village."[11]

Demographics
Knodishall population time series 1801–2011

The total population of Knodishall from 1801 to 2011 has gradually increased. in 1801 the total population was just under 300 people and a slow increase until 1961 came to over 500 people.[12] Then there was a much steeper increase between 1961 and 2001, of around 400 more people – we do not have any separate census data between 1961 and 2001. However in 1865, when the parish of Buxlow became part of Knodishall, there was no significant increase in total population to show this boundary change in the following census year.

Ethnicity

Of the 852 people living in Knodishall in 2008, 846 of them were white English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, British, or other. There was one person of mixed race white and black Caribbean. The area and surrounding areas are all predominantly white.[13]

Industry

In the 1880s, the main trades were agriculture and commodities. The employment was mainly male, as were most types of employment at that time. However, domestic services were almost wholly provided by women.[14] as shown in the graph opposite. It is also clear that many females did not have jobs and simply kept their own households.

Chart showing the various occupations by gender in Knodishall in 1881
Industry Males[15] Females[16] Total[17]
Agriculture 7 2 9
Construction 39 5 44
Retail and repair of motor vehicles 32 20 52
Accommodation and Catering 13 22 35
Education 6 27 33
Human health and Social Work 8 35 43
Manufacturing 18 6 24

(The table shows the raw number of males and females aged 16 to 74 in employment in Knodishall from the 2011 census.)

Looking at the 2011 census, the main Knodishall occupations were retail trading, motor vehicle and motor cycle repairs, human health and social work, building construction and education, mostly still male dominated,[15] but accommodation, catering, human health, social work and education were female dominated.[16]

See also

References
  1. St Lawrence, Knodishall, Suffolk Churches website, July 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  2. "St Lawrence, Knodishall, Suffolk". Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  3. City Population. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  4. "Knodishall (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  5. Wilson, John Marius (1870–72). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fulerton & Co.
  6. "History of Suffolk – Knodishall 1865". Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  7. W. U. S. Glanville-Richards, Records of the Anglo-Norman house of Glanville, from A.D. 1050 to 1880 (Mitchell and Hughes, London 1882), pp. 38-42 (pdf pp. 61-65).
  8. "St Lawrence, Knodishall (Knoddishall), Church of England". Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  9. GENUKI. "Knodishall". Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  10. Stuff, Good. "Church of St Lawrence, Knodishall, Suffolk". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  11. "Knodishall Parish Newsletter, Winter 2017" (PDF). Knodishall Parish Council. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  12. "Knodishall AP/CP Population Statistics, Total Population". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  13. Sillitoe, Neil (14 April 2008). "Ethnic Group, 2011 (KS201EW)". neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  14. Vision of Britain. "Vision of Britain-1881 Census: Ages, Table 10". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  15. Sillitoe, Neighbourhood Statistics – Neil (14 April 2008). "Industry – Males, 2011 (KS606EW)". neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  16. Sillitoe, Neighbourhood Statistics – Neil (14 April 2008). "Industry – Females, 2011 (KS607EW)". neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  17. Sillitoe, Neighbourhood Statistics – Neil (14 April 2008). "Industry, 2011 (KS605EW)". neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
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