Dedworth

Coordinates: 51°28′37″N 0°38′53″W / 51.477°N 0.648°W / 51.477; -0.648

Dedworth
All Saints' Church
Dedworth  Dedworth shown within Berkshire
OS grid reference	SU940762
Unitary authority	Windsor and Maidenhead
Ceremonial county	Berkshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
EU Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • Berkshire

Dedworth is the most westerly area of Windsor in the English county of Berkshire.

History

The name Dedworth is formed from the words 'Dydda', meaning a man's name and 'Worth', a Saxon word for enclosure.^[1]

Dedworth was one of three Saxon villages (the other two being Clewer and Losfield) that Windsor expanded to encompass. Dedworth predates Windsor and is mentioned in the Domesday Book^[1] as Dideorde.^[2]

An irregular quadrangular moat in Wolf Lane may be all that remains of the manor house of Dedworth Maunsell.^[1] The other manor in the area was Dedworth Loring, owned by the De Loring family from the time of Peter De Loring in the early 13th century.^[1] It was possibly located to the north where a large medieval hearth has been uncovered in the aptly named Knight’s Close^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Ford, David Nash (2001). "History of Dedworth, Berkshire". Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/dedworth.html. Retrieved 10 October 2011. 
2. ^ "The Domesday Book Online: Berkshire D-M". http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/berkshire2.html. Retrieved 2008-02-03. 

External links

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