Editing Worksop (section)

===Anglo-Norman Times===
In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, Worksop appears as ''Werchesope''. Thoroton<ref>Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 3, Republished with Large Additions by John Throsby, Nottingham, 1796</ref> states that the Domesday Book records that before the [[Norman Conquest]], Werchesope (Worksop) had belonged to Elsi, son of Caschin, who had "two manors in Werchesope, which paid to the geld as three car". After the conquest, Worksop became part of the extensive lands granted to [[Roger de Busli]]. At this time, the land "had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of meadow, pasture wood two leu. long, three quar. broad." This was valued at three pounds in [[Edward the Confessor]]'s time and seven pounds in the Domesday Book. Roger administered this estate from his headquarters in [[Tickhill]].

The manor then passed to [[William de Lovetot]], who established a [[castle]] and endowed the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[Worksop Priory|priory]] around 1103. After William's death, the manor was passed to his eldest son, Richard de Lovetot, who was visited by [[Stephen of England|King Stephen]], at Worksop, in 1161.<ref>Worksop the Dukery and Sherwood Forest, Robert White, 1875</ref> In 1258, a surviving ''inspeximus'' charter confirms Matilda de Lovetot's grant of the manor of Worksop to William de Furnival (her son).