Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Bodeurde 1086 DB

• Bodeworth 1304 Chamb 1329 Fine 1357 ChFor

• Bodewrth 1328 VR 1338

• Boddeworth c.1300 Bark 1403 ib

• Bodworth 1324 Bark

• Bodworthe 1374 Tab

• Buddeworth 1153–81 ChFor 1353–7 ChRR 1456

• Buddeworth iuxta Oure 1329 Plea

• Buddeworth Rushton 1350 Orm2

• Buddeworth Ruysshton 1359 ib

• Budworth 1295 Orm2

• Buddew(o)r(th) in foresta (de Mara) 1290–1310 AD 1311 Plea

• Budworth en le Frith 1295 Orm2

• Budworth-in-the-Frith 1860 White

• Budworth in Frithe 1534 Chol

• Little Boddeworth 1353 BPR

• Little Budworth(e) 1582,1599 AD

• Budworth Parva 1668 Sheaf 1724 NotCestr

Etymology

'Bud(d)a's enclosure', from the OE  pers.n. Bud (d )a and worð.Little - (v. lȳtel ) distinguishes this from Great Budworth 2107, which was a larger parish. It adjoins Rushton 291infra and Over 170supra .It was 'in the forest', v. in , en , forest , (ge)fyrhðe being within the Forest of Delamere 18.