Editing Knightsbridge (section)

==Toponymy==
Knightsbridge is an ancient name, spelt in a variety of ways in Saxon and Old English, such as ''Cnihtebricge'' (c. 1050); ''Knichtebrig'' (1235); ''Cnichtebrugge'' (13th century); and ''Knyghtesbrugg'' (1364). The meaning is "bridge of the young men or retainers," from the Old English ''cniht'' (genitive case plural –a) and ''brycg''.  ''Cniht'', in pre-Norman days, did not have the later meaning of a warrior on horseback, but simply meant a youth. The allusion may be to a place where ''cnihtas'' congregated: bridges and wells seem always to have been favourite gathering places of young people, and the original bridge was where one of the old roads to the west crossed the [[River Westbourne]].<ref>A. D. Mills. ''A Dictionary of London Place-Names''. {{ISBN|978-0199566785}}</ref><ref>[https://www.etymonline.com/word/knight Online Etymology Dictionary, knight (n.)]</ref> However, there is possibly a more specific reference to the important ''cnihtengild'' ('guild of ''cnihtas''‘) in 11th-century London and to the limits of its jurisdiction (certainly Knightsbridge was one of the limits of the commercial jurisdiction of the [[City of London]] in the 12th century).