Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London,^[2] south of Hyde Park. It identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End.^[3]

Toponymy

Knightsbridge is an ancient name, spelt in a variety of ways in Saxon and Old English, such as Cnihtebricge (c. 1050); Knichtebrig (1235); Cnichtebrugge (13th century); and Knyghtesbrugg (1364). The meaning is “bridge of the young men or retainers,” from the Old English cniht (genitive case plural –a) and brycg. Cniht, in pre-Norman days, did not have the later meaning of a warrior on horseback, but simply meant a youth.

The allusion may be to a place where cnihtas congregated: bridges and wells seem always to have been favourite gathering places of young people, and the original bridge was where one of the old roads to the west crossed the River Westbourne.^[4]^[5] However, there is possibly a more specific reference to the important cnihtengild (‘guild of cnihtas‘) in 11th-century London and to the limits of its jurisdiction (certainly Knightsbridge was one of the limits of the commercial jurisdiction of the City of London in the 12th century).

History

Map showing two Knightsbridge wards of Westminster Metropolitan Borough (to the west) as they appeared in 1916

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Knightsbridge was a hamlet located primarily in the parish of St Margaret (detached) and partly in St Martin in the Fields (the part that later became St George Hanover Square). It also extended into the parishes of Kensington and Chelsea. It was therefore divided between local authorities from a very early time.^[6]

In the time of Edward I, the manor of Knightsbridge appertained to the abbey of Westminster.^[7] It was named after a crossing of the River Westbourne, which is now an underground river. It is recorded that the citizens of London met Matilda of England at the Knight’s Bridge in 1141.^{[citation needed]}

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