Rothwell is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Morley in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Morley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Rothwell is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wella, a spring or stream. 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 spring’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Rothwell.

Listed Buildings Near Rothwell

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

Grade II*

32, 34 and 36, Commercial Street - 0.32 km

Grade II

War Memorial - 0.3 km
Church of the Holy Trinity - 0.33 km
Gravestone of John Blenkinsop Approximately 2 Metres North of Tower of Church of the Holy Trinity - 0.34 km
Long Acre - 0.37 km
Barn to South of Number 7 - 0.39 km
Hazelwood Cottages - 0.39 km
2, Marsh Street - 0.53 km
Prospect Place - 0.59 km
Rothwell Infants School - 0.63 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Rothwell

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

Rothwell Castle - 0.42 km

Rothwell Today

Today Rothwell lies within the administrative area of Leeds, and the settlement recorded a population of 20,354 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 Rothwell on Wikipedia .