The hamlet sits on an unclassified road, and is surrounded to the north, south and west by woodland.

North Radworthy Farm[2] is the centre of the historic estate.

[3] The entry in the Domesday Book for North and South Radworthy stated a population of twelve households (eight villagers and four slaves) which was tax assessed to pay a total of 0.3 geld units.

The Anglo-Saxon lord of the manor before 1066 was Alward son of Toki but after the Norman Conquest, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, was William Cheever (Latinised to Capra, "she-goat", from French Chèvre), who was a tenant-in-chief of the king.

The land held ten cattle, four pigs and fifty sheep.