In Wircesburg Gerneber and Haldene had five carucates of land and a half to be taxed where there may be four ploughs. Gamel and Chetelber now have it of Ilbert, themselves two ploughs, and four bordars, and one mill pays two shillings.
Wood pasture half a mile long and half a mile broad.
Value in King Edward's time four pounds, now thirty shillings. Before the Conquest Worsbrough formed part of the possessions of Swein, a great Saxon lord, who had large estates in the Wapentake of Staincross and Strafford. There are indications of earlier settlements nearby. At the time when the Domesday Book was prepared in 1068, the spelling of Worsbrough was 'Wircesburg'. The first known Lord of the manor of Worsbrough appears to have been Ailric, the father of Swaine , it follows that the manor must have passed to his son Adam Fitz Swain who in 1156, founded the Monastery at Monk Bretton or Lund as it was then known.