Knightley, Staffordshire

Knightley is a hamlet and former manor in Staffordshire, England.52°49′23″N 2°16′52″W / 52.823°N 2.281°W / 52.823; -2.281 It is situated near the villages of Gnosall and Woodseaves, now on the B5405 road.

There is a church, an agricultural contractor, a few farms and houses and an old blacksmiths.

The hamlet is on the site of a former Roman military station, which was called Mediolanum.

[2] The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the tenant of Chenistelei as Rainald, namely "Reginald the Sheriff", who held 88 manors throughout England, said to be the ancestor of this family.

[3][4] Mark Noble (1787) wrote of the de Knightley family:[5] In 1415 Sir Richard Knightley purchased the manor of Fawsley in Northamptonshire, where the senior line of the family became seated.