Knowle St Giles

Knowle St Giles is a village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England, situated on the River Isle 2mi south of Ilminster and 2.5mi north east of Chard. The village has a population of 244.The parish includes the village of Cricket Malherbie.HistoryIn the Domesday book of 1086, Knowle St Giles is recorded as having small holdings by five villani and four bordarii. In the medieval period this grew with the reclamation of forest on Windwhistle Hill.The parish of St Giles Knowles was part of the South Petherton Hundred.