Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• (æt) Dibberwurðe 1001–12 ASWrits(S1383)

• Dibbrew(u)rth' 1306(15),15 Forde

• Diberwrþe e13 Pole 1318 Forde 15

• Diberwerthe 13 15 ib

• Diberwrth(') Hy3 Hutch3 1251–2 Fees

• Diberwurth 1244 Ass

• Diberworth 1621(17),1628(17) Strode

• Dybrewurth 1255 FF

• Dibreworth' 1268 Ass 1318 Forde 15

• Dyberworth' 1280,1288 Ass

• Deberw(e)rþe 13(15),1317(15) Forde

• Deberworth' 1463,1530 Pole

• Deberwurth(') 1505,1516 ib

• Debworthy(e) 1485,1496 ib

• Debwerthe 1496 ib

• Dibberford 1774 Hutch1 1811 OS

• Dibberwood 1688 SoDoNQ

• Deberwod 1689 Pole

Etymology

'Dycgbeorht's enclosed farmstead', from the OE  pers.n. Dycgbeorht (recorded once, Searle 173) and worð. There is no ford here; as shown by the spellings, the substitution of ford for the final el. dates only from the 16th cent., cf. Piddles Wood in Sturminster N. par. 3 192 for the alternative 17th-cent. development to wood . The prefix in Rock Dibberford is perhaps a surname, cf. Richard Rock owner of the messuage of Langley infra a 1796 Hutch3 2327.