Which famous architect was born in the Wiltshire village of East Knoyle
East Knoyle East Knoyle East Knoyle is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, in the south west of England. The village lies just west of the A350 road about south of Warminster and north of Shaftesbury, Dorset. It is the birthplace of Sir Christopher Wren. The parish includes the hamlets of Holloway, Milton, The Green, Underhill and Upton. East Knoyle was part of the ancient Hundred of Downton. Unusually for England, parish registers survive from 1538 and are kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales" (1870-1872) notes two tythings in East
East Knoyle the Action on Addiction charity as a treatment centre for drug and alcohol dependence. East Knoyle elects a consultative parish council, while Wiltshire Council have their offices in Trowbridge. The village is represented in Parliament by the member for South West Wiltshire, Andrew Murrison. The village falls in the 'Nadder and East Knoyle' electoral ward. The ward stretches east-west starting at Burcombe Without and crossing to East Knoyle before stretching south to Donhead St Mary. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 4,257. East Knoyle has a village hall, between the church and the former school. It