Amongst the manors said to have been freed for the monks of Worcester by King Edgar in 964 from all royal exactions, Knightwick was included. At this time and in 1086 it formed part of the manor of Grimley and so was probably included in the grant of Grimley to the church of Worcester by Beorhtwulf, King of Mercia in 851. The manor was assigned to the monks, and had been leased by them to a certain Eadgyth, who held it performing the services due for it, as long as the brethren could dispense with it. In the time of King William, however, their number increased and Eadgyth restored the manor to them. She was living at the time of the Domesday Survey but the hide of Knightwick passed to Walter de Bequchamp, son-in-law of Urse the Sheriff.
The advowsons of the chapels of Knightwick and Doddenham were given by Simon de Mans about 1177 to the Prior and convent at Worcester, for the souls of his father and mother and himself.
Knightwick and Doddenham are separated by the River Teme and both parish churches were pulled down in the 19thc. A modern bridge now joins the villages and Doddenham church was built in 1856 on the N side to serve both. To the S of the river the old church site was used to build the mortuary chapel in 1879.
