English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Dunworth Hundred

Hundred in the County of Wiltshire

Historical Forms

  • Donouuorde hundred 1086 ExonDB
  • Hundred de Dunewrth(e) 1196 Cur 1255 RH
  • Donewurth 1289 Ass

Etymology

The meeting-place must have been at or near Dunworth in Wardour infra 197.