Hawksworth in the Domesday Book (1086)
Hawksworth appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Skyrack
- Adel
- Allerton [Bywater]
- Alwoodley
- Arthington
- Austhorpe
- Baildon
- Bardsey
- Barwick [in Elmet]
- Bichertun
- Bicherun
- Bingley
- Birkby [Hill]
- Bramhope
- Burden [Head]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hawksworth 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 Hawksworth.
Listed Buildings Near Hawksworth
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Hawksworth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Hawksworth Hall - 0.37 km
Grade II
- Mullion Cottage, Squirrel Cottage and Wayside - 0.27 km
- The Manor House - 0.28 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.31 km
- Hall Croft - 0.31 km
- Hawksworth Cottage - 0.32 km
- Springside Farmhouse and Springside Cottage - 0.37 km
- Cobblestones - 0.38 km
- Hawkslyn - 0.39 km
- Sunnyside Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.51 km
- Gate Piers at East Entrance to Hawksworth Hall - 0.56 km
- Intake Side Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.71 km
- Lambspring Farmhouse and Integral Barn - 1.23 km
- Outbuilding approximately 4 metres south west of rear of Lane Side Farmhouse - 1.25 km
- Lane Side Farmhouse - 1.26 km
- Thorpe Farmhouse - 1.26 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hawksworth
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hawksworth:
- Carved rock in Hawksworth Spring - 0.85 km
Hawksworth Today
Today Hawksworth lies within the administrative area of Leeds.
Read more about modern Hawksworth on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Hawksworth
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.
© Humphrey Bolton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Spencer · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© ian saunders · 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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