West Knoyle is a small village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, close to the southern edge of Salisbury Plain.

A prehistoric bowl barrow, 8 m in diameter, lies on high ground northeast of the village.

[3] The Domesday Book recorded 23 households at Chenvel in 1086, and land owned by Wilton Abbey.

[4] Wilton Abbey held the manor until the dissolution; later landowners include Christopher Willoughby (c.1508–1570), a Member of Parliament.

[8] The parish church of St Mary the Virgin, in the north of the present village, is a Grade II* listed building.