Worthenbury

Other current and historical names

Hurdingberie

Parish/Community: Willington Worthenbury
Unitary Authority: Wrexham
Region: Wales

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 53°0'32"N 2°51'53"W
Eastings/Northings: 342062, 346098
OS Grid: SJ420460
Mapcode Local: GBR 7C.GDKY
Mapcode Global: WH896.YMXJ

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

Worthenbury in historic gazetteers

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

Worthenbury, par. and vil., Flintshire, in detached part of co.- par., 3420 ac., pop. 446; vil., on river Dee, 7 miles SE. of Wrexham; P.O.

Worthenbury in the Domesday Book

A village in Duddeston hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Edwin
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert son of Hugh
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: 1 man-at-arms (subinfeudated); Robert son of Hugh
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 16 shillings in 1066; £1 10/- in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 1 slave; 4 other
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 4 men's ploughs (10 plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 acre
- Mills: 1

British Place Names

Worthenbury, Wrexham

Worthenbury is a village in Wrexham

Worthenbury in historic gazetteers

Worthenbury in the Domesday Book