Worthenbury

Other current and historical names

Hurdingberie

Built-Up Area: Holt
Parish/Community: Willington Worthenbury
Unitary Authority: Wrexham
Region: Wales

Category: Populated Place
Type: Other Settlement

Latitude/Longitude: 53°0'45"N 2°51'30"W
Eastings/Northings: 342500, 346500
OS Grid: SJ425465
Mapcode Local: GBR 7C.G84L
Mapcode Global: WH897.2J3R

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 settlement in Holt, Wrexham

Worthenbury in historic gazetteers

Worthenbury in the Domesday Book