The date of origin of Lower Cudworth is uncertain. Neither Upper or Lower Cudworth are recorded in the Domesday Book and the first recorded reference to the area comes from the chartularies of Nostel and Bretton in the late 12th and 13th century (Hunter 1831, 398). This polygon is part of the extent of the village on first edition (1854) maps. At this time the settlement was of quite low density consisting of a cluster of farms and the manor house. There was substantial alteration to this part of the village by 1906 as planned miners estates were built but some parts of earlier buildings survive giving fragmentary legibility of the earlier village