Dodworth in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Dodworth is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Staincross
- Adlingfleet
- Barnby [Hall]
- Barnsley
- Barugh
- Brierley
- Carlton
- Cawthorne
- Chevet
- Clactone
- Clayton [West]
- Darton
- Hemsworth
- Hoyland [Swaine]
- Hunshelf [Hall]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Dodworth 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 Dodworth.
Listed Buildings Near Dodworth
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Dodworth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Outbuilding Attached to Rear of Number 13 - 0.25 km
- Dodworth Old Hall - 0.26 km
- First and Second World War Memorial at Junction With Dodworth Green Road - 0.29 km
- The Grove - 0.44 km
- Travellers’ Inn - 0.47 km
- Church of St John - 0.59 km
- Dodworth Grange - 0.9 km
- Outbuilding Approximately 10 Metres East of Saville Hall - 0.96 km
- Saville Hall - 0.96 km
- Barn Approximately 60 Metres South East of Saville Hall at East End of Farmyard - 1.0 km
- Barn Along West Side of Farmyard at Home Farm - 1.15 km
Dodworth Today
Today Dodworth lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 9,777 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Dodworth on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Silkstone - 2.0 km W
- Stainborough Castle - 2.0 km S
- Keresforth Hall - 2.2 km SE
- Barugh - 3.0 km N
- Barnsley - 3.2 km E
- Cawthorne - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around Dodworth
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Peter Beard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Beard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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