Holdworth in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Holdworth, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Holdworth 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 Holdworth.
Listed Buildings Near Holdworth
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Holdworth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Far House Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding Under Same Roof - 0.14 km
- Holdworth Cottage - 0.63 km
- Guide Pillar at Junction With Burnt Hill Lane, East Side of Junction - 0.64 km
- Barn and Cottage at Fair Flats Farm Approximately 5 Metres to West of House - 0.74 km
- Former Carmelite Monastery of the Holy Spirit and enclosure wall - 0.75 km
- Barn at Briers House Farm Approximately 15 Metres to East of House - 1.23 km
Holdworth Today
Today Holdworth lies within the administrative area of Bradfield.
Read more about modern Holdworth on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Holdworth
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.
© Terry Robinson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Terry Robinson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Eggleston · 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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