Knodishall, a village in Suffolk, England, lies south-east of Saxmundham, south-west of Leiston, and 3 miles from the coast, in the Blything Hundred. Most dwellings are now at Coldfair Green; just a few remain in the original village by the parish Church of St Lawrence, which falls gently on the north side of the Hundred River valley. It is now an outlier of Knodishall Common, a settlement a mile to the south-east. The estimated parish population was 790 in 2019. History The name of Knodishall is an Old English formation referring to the healh, the bower or retreat of a person named Cnott. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture draws the following observations for Knodishall ("Cnotesheala", "Cnenotessala") from the Domesday Survey of 1086:"Roger Bigod was the chief landholder here in 1086. Ranulf FitzWalter held 80 acres from him. Another 30 acres held by Roger Bigod had belonged before the Conquest to Edward the Confessor's free man, Boti. It had once been held by William Malet, while Robert Malet held the soke. An area of 80 acres in Knodishall formed an outlying estate or berewick of Bigod's manor in Saxmundham." Manor of Knoddishall or Knottishall The family of Jenney are supposed to take their name from Guisnes near Calais, France, and to have been seated soon after the Norman conquest at Haverland in Norfolk under the name of de Gisneto, de Gisne or Gyney. In the time of Richard II, Thomas son of Sir Thomas Gyney held the manor of Jenneys at Gislingham, Suffolk. A branch of the Jenney family became possessed of the manor of Knodishall by or before the fifteenth century and held it continuously from that time until it came to Edmund Jenney of Bredfield. This Edmund married Anne daughter of Philip Broke of Nacton in 1765, and sold the manor to Edward Vernon, who died in 1757. The old residence of the Jenney family at Knodishall, which was near the path leading from the church to Knodishall heath, burned down in around 1860, at which time the manor was held by the Mayhew family. In the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of 1291, the Abbot of Leiston was assessed at four pounds fifteen shillings and fourpence three-farthing for rents on lands, meadows and villeins at Cnoteshale, and the Prior of Butley for lands and rents at one pound three shillings and a penny-halfpenny. They also had lands assessed at £1 and