The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Dilworth House, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Dilworth House at 2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Dilworth House supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 7 smallholders, working 6 ploughs between them.

The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Dilworth House was worth 2 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 1 shilling – a fall of 50%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

Resources Recorded at Dilworth House (1086)

Meadow: 1 acres

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Dilworth House is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word worð, an enclosure or homestead. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a enclosure’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Dilworth House.

Listed Buildings Near Dilworth House

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Dilworth House. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II