Ludworth in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Ludworth, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Blackwell

• Abney
• Ashford [-in-the-Water]
• Aston
• Bakewell
• Bamford
• Baslow
• Beeley
• Birchills
• Birchover
• Blackwell
• Bradwell
• Bubnell
• Burley
• Burton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ludworth 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 Ludworth.

Listed Buildings Near Ludworth

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Ludworth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• The Cottage - 0.82 km
• Barn at Pear Tree Farm - 0.87 km
• Pear Tree Farmhouse - 0.88 km
• 30 and 32, Mill Brow - 0.96 km
• Whitebottom Farm - 1.09 km
• Compstall Bridge - 1.12 km
• Church Houses Post Office - 1.2 km
• Weir on River Goyt - 1.25 km
• Compstall War Memorial - 1.26 km
• Church of St Paul - 1.28 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Ludworth

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Ludworth:

• Brown Low bowl barrow - 1.29 km

Ludworth Today

Today Ludworth lies within the administrative area of Stockport.

Read more about modern Ludworth on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Chisworth and Higher Chisworth - 2.2 km NE
• Werneth - 2.8 km NW
• Charlesworth - 3.6 km NE
• Leighton - 3.6 km SW
• Romiley - 4.0 km W
• Bredbury - 5.4 km W