Historical Research

Domesday Book England

England's great survey of 1086 — ordered by William the Conqueror to record every settlement, landowner and resource across the kingdom.

13,425 settlements across 34 counties

About the Domesday Book

Completed in 1086, the Domesday Book is the oldest surviving public record in England. Commissioned by William I, it surveyed nearly every settlement — recording who held the land, how many people lived there, what resources they had and what it was all worth.

Aubrey draws on Domesday records as part of every report for a location in England — placing your chosen land in the context of an 11th-century feudal survey that shaped English land ownership for centuries.