KNAITH, a parish in the wapentake of WELL, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 85 miles (S. by E.) from Gainsborough, containing 59 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £400 royal bounty. The church, formerly belonging to the Cistercian monastery of Heyninges, has two windows, richly ornamented with tracery, in the decorated style of English architecture. The monastery was founded about 1180, and valued at the dissolution at £58. 13. 4. per annum. The river Trent bounds this parish on the west. Thomas Sutton, founder of the Charter-house in London, was a native of this place.