Knott End
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English
Etymology
Recorded as Cnote in the 13th century (Middle English knot (“a hillock”)). The spelling Knot-End was used in the 19th century (see quotation).
Proper noun
- Short for Knott End-on-Sea.
- 1942 May-June, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Knott End Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 191:
- The Garstang & Knot-End Railway was incorporated by an Act of June 30, 1864, to construct a line from the Lancaster & Preston Junction Railway (afterwards the L.N.W.R.) to Knott End, a distance of 11¾ miles. [...] From Pilling to Knot-End (then spelled thus) there was a grass-grown half-completed railway, and eventually a new company called the Knott End Railway Company was incorporated in 1898 to complete this.