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The village of Knock in Cumbria is located about 4 miles north of Appleby-in-Westmorland and is part of Long Marton Civil Parish.

KNOCK, a township, in the parish of Long Marton, East ward and union, county of Westmorland, 2 miles (N.N.E.) from the village of Long Marton; containing 197 inhabitants. The manor was anciently called Knock-Shalcock. The Close House estate here belongs to Francis Pearson, Esq., of Kirkby-Lonsdale, in whose family it has been for nearly two centuries: the House has been lately rebuilt, and Mr. Pearson has made some very scientific improvements on the estate.

Extract from: A Topographical Dictionary of England comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships..... 7th Edition, by Samuel Lewis, London, 1848.

Knock is a small village in the Eden district of Cumbria, England, northwest of the larger village of Dufton. It lies midway between Cross Fell to the north and the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland to the south.

The place-name 'Knock' is first attested in a Yorkshire charter from between 1150 and 1162, where it appears as Chonoc-salchild. It appears as Knok in an Inquisition post mortem of 1323. The name means 'hillock', from the Brittonic *cnuc, Old Irish cnocc or Irish cnoc: the nearby Knock Pike is 1,306 feet high. It can be seen in the photo to the right. Circa 1870, it had a population of 197 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.

Knock once had a Methodist 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.

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Long Marton Civil Parish Dufton with Knock Methodist Chapel Long Marton Parish, 1848 Dufton
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Old cottage and barn at Close House, Knock
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Dufton with Knock Methodist Chapel
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- Overview Map Street View Dufton with Knock Methodist Chapel was built in c.1900. A Wesleyan chapel was established in Dufton in 1803, replaced by a new chapel in 1820 (the …
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- Overview About Dufton Map Street View Dufton is a village in Cumbria, located on the Pennine Way and about 3 miles north of Appleby-in-Westmorland. Dufton is centred around a large …

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