Knowl Green is a hamlet in the

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Belchamp St Paul Belchamp St Paul is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. The village is west of Sudbury, Suffolk, and northeast of the county town, Chelmsford. The parish is northwest of Belchamp Otten and Belchamp Walt ...

and the Braintree district of

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, England. The hamlet is approximately west from the town of

Sudbury, Suffolk Sudbury (, ) is a market town and civil parish in the south west of Suffolk, England, on the River Stour near the Essex border, north-east of London. It is the largest town in the Babergh local government district and part of the South Suf ...

and north-northeast from the

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and city of

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. It is where Gage's Road from Belchamp St Paul village at the north-east, and Belchamps Road from Tilbury Juxta Clare at the south-west, meet at the junction of Pollard's Green Lane which leads north to Ovington. Knowl Green comprises houses, cottages, two farms with associated buildings, and the Cherry Tree

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. The Cherry Tree was recorded as such in 1933. An arm of Belchamp Brook, a tributary of the River Stour, rises at the north of Knowl Green and flows by the hamlet. There are seven Grade II

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s in Knowl Green. Hole Farmhouse is an early 19th-century timber-framed house at the north of the junction, with, to the south, an associated

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and weatherboarded late 19th-century cartshed. Woodbarn's Farmhouse, at the south of the junction, is a timber-framed and plastered house dating to the 15th century. At the west of the hamlet on Belchamp Road are two conjoined two-storey 18th-century cottages, timber-framed, with brick corners and flint infill. At the east of the hamlet at the north side of Gage's Road is a 17th-century timber-framed thatch-roofed cottage. Opposite, and set back at the south of the road is a further 17th-century timber-framed thatch-roofed cottage. Near this cottage, and on Gage's Road, is The Cherry Tree Inn, timber-framed and plastered, and with

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s, dating to the late 17th century, with a 20th-century extension.

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"Belchamp St Paul's
(Knowl Green), in ''An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex'', Volume 1, North West (London, 1916), pp.16-18.

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