Derivation of Ackworth
ACKWORTH is a large village about two miles south of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is generally supposed to have derived its name from the Anglo-Saxon Ake or Aken, oak, and Uurt, worth, . which means a hamlet or village. The spelling of the village seems to have been crystallised to Ackworth by 1800, although the original spel¬ling of the name was Acworth, and there is no "K" in the name in Domesday Book -. the spelling there is Aceuurde. An Anglo-Saxon authority has stated that the name Ackworth could mean Acca's worth, Le., Acca's enclosure, Acca being an Anglo-Saxon surname.
