Mackworth appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Litchurch

The Meaning of the Name

The name Mackworth 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 Mackworth.

Listed Buildings Near Mackworth

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

Grade I

Gatehouse to Mackworth Castle - 0.45 km
Church of All Saints - 0.51 km

Grade II

The Old School and Attached Boundary Wall - 0.28 km
The Thatched Cottage - 0.38 km
Castle Cottages - 0.44 km
Gateway and Walls enclosing graveyard of All Saints - 0.48 km
Tomb, Seven Metres West of Tower of All Saints Church - 0.49 km
Home Farmhouse - 0.69 km
Old School House - 0.79 km
Milepost at Os 307 381 - 1.1 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Mackworth

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

Mackworth medieval settlement including the castle gatehouse, part of the medieval open field system and a pinfold - 0.33 km

Mackworth Today

Today Mackworth lies within the administrative area of Amber Valley, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,482 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Mackworth on Wikipedia .