Worthen

Other current and historical names

Wrdine

Built-Up Area: Worthen
Parish/Community: Worthen with Shelve
Unitary Authority: Shropshire
Region: West Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°38'8"N 2°59'42"W
Eastings/Northings: 332753, 304685
OS Grid: SJ327046
Mapcode Local: GBR B6.738Y
Mapcode Global: WH8C2.Y0XQ

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Worthen within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Worthen in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Worthen, township and vil., Shropshire, and par., partly also in Montgomeryshire - par., 18,009 ac., pop. 3717; township (containing Hope, eccl. dist.), 13,760 ac., pop. 3209; vil., 3½ miles W. of Minsterley sta. and 12½ SW. of Shrewsbury; P.O.; has lead mines.

Worthen in the Domesday Book

A village in Wittery hundred, in the county of Shropshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Morcar
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Roger son of Corbet
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Roger son of Corbet; Picot, a man-at-arms (subinfeudated); Grento, a man-at-arms (subinfeudated); Geoffrey the sheriff (subinfeudated); Rainfrid, a man-at-arms (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 14 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; 10 shillings in 1070; £9 10/- in 1086
- Households: 20 villagers; 14 smallholders; 6 slaves; 6 other
- Plough Teams: 6 ¹⁄₂ lord's ploughs; 14 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (41 plough lands)
- Woodland: 200 pigs
- Mills: 2

British Place Names

Worthen, Shropshire

Worthen is a village in Shropshire

Worthen in historic gazetteers

Worthen in the Domesday Book