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; 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
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Knock is also shown on
Thomas Jefferys's 1770 map of Westmorland. 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 that killed two people. ==See also==