Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Suggew(e)rth 1279 1327 SR

• Suggeworth 1296 SR

• Sogeworth 1434 LewesDeeds

• Sugworth 1559 SAC41,207

• Sugwood 1629 SAC41

• Southworth al. Sugworth 1631 SRS14,34

Etymology

This may be a second example of the name Sugworth (PN Berks 108), from the pers. name Sucga and worþ , cf. also Sugworthy (D), but as all the earliest forms are from pers. names, perhaps it is manorial, taking its name from some settler from the Berkshire place, and the form should really now be Sugworths (cf. the modern pronunciation with final z ).