Knutsford
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Knutsford is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire East district, in Cheshire, England; it is located 14 miles south-west of Manchester, 9 miles north-west of Macclesfield and 12+1⁄2 miles so
Around Knutsford geograph.org.uk 7103999
Charlotte's Garden, Tatton Park geograph.org.uk 3984153
St Cross Church, Knutsford geograph.org.uk 6592689
Town Council Offices, Toft Road, built 1846 as Governor's House of Knutsford Gaol
Cnut
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Cnut, also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united und
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…Peak District to the east and the Welsh mountains to the west. Knutsford was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cunetesford ("Canute's ford"). King Canute (Knútr in Old Norse) was the king of England (1016–1035) and later king of Denmark, Norway and parts of Sweden as well. Local tradition says that King…
Contemporary drawing of King Cnut from the New Minster Liber Vitae, 1031
This runestone in Sweden (U 194), in memory of a Viking known as Alli, says he won Knútr's payment in England.
Medieval illumination depicting Kings Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut (right), from the Chronica Majora written and illustrated by Matthew Paris
Silver penny of Cnut the Great with a quatrefoil on the obverse dating to the period c.1017–23