Dungworth (archaic Dungeworth,[1]) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bradfield, west of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.

[2] Dungworth is a hamlet located approximately 1.25 miles (2 km) west of Stannington and the outermost suburbs of Sheffield in agricultural high ground at around 200 m (660 ft) above sea level.

][citation needed] A cruck barn at Briers House farm once used as a cowhouse and hayloft dates from the 16th century.

[13] Manufacture of knives took place in Dungworth in the 17th and 18th centuries;[14] the nearby 'Sykehouse' (c. 1800) at Syke House farm has hearths and workshop dating from the period.

[15] The census of 1861 shows a large number of men in the Dungworth, Hill Top and Storrs area who combined farming with the production of knives in small workshops attached to their cottages.

[10] Ringwood House on Main Road was once a butcher's shop and had arched cellars used for storing meat,[when?]

William Trickett died in 1890 and the business was continued by his three sons, William, Benjamin and Matthew under the name of B. Trickett & Co.[citation needed] The mine was officially named the Intake Clay Pit and had four drift entrances going into the hillside; one of these is still visible as is the path of the former tramway which had stone foundations.

by Thomas Wragg & Sons who had a business in the Loxley valley making refractory bricks; the mine and works closed in the 1950s.