Holsworthy

Holsworthy is a little market town and common area in the neighborhood government locale of Torridge, Devon, England. The district town of Exeter is 36.4 miles 58.6 km toward the east. The waterway Deer, a tributary of the stream Tamar, shapes the western limit of the area, which incorporates the town of Brandis Corner. As per the 2011 statistics the number of inhabitants in Holsworthy was 2,641.

The first significance of "Holsworthy" is most likely "Heald's fenced in area". Gotten from the Old English individual name "Heald" or "Healda", in addition to "- worthig", a walled in area, homestead or home. An elective probability is from Old English "heald" which means grade or incline. In 1086 the name was recorded as Haldeword and as Haldeurdi Exon. Other recorded spellings are Haldwwurth 1228, Halleswrthia - worthe - wordi late twelfth 1291, Haldeswrthy - wrthi - worth 1277– 1389, Holdesworthe 1308, Healdesworthe c. 1320, Hyallesworthi 1326, Houlsworthy 1675.

Holsworthy is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Haldeword. It was a piece of the Hundred of Black Torrington.In 1066 the master of the house was Earl Harold and in 1066 it was William I. It was given by Henry II to Fulk Paganell. He gave it, with his little girl Gundred, to Matthew del Jartye. Their girl and beneficiary conveyed it to Chaworth. Henry de Tracey obtained it from Chaworth, and it slipped to the baronial group of Martyn.