How many places are in the Domesday Book for Bedfordshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 146 settlements in Bedfordshire. Each entry documents the lord, land value, ploughlands, and population of the settlement.

What is the Domesday Book?

The Domesday Book is the great survey commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085 and completed in 1086. It recorded landholding, land value, and population across most of England, and remains the most complete survey of medieval England ever made.

Which county is Bedfordshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Bedfordshire appears under its historic county boundaries as they existed in 1086. The survey used the pre-Conquest administrative divisions rather than modern county boundaries.

How do I find my ancestor's village in the Bedfordshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 146 Bedfordshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire

146 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Bedfordshire has 146 Domesday settlements. Aubrey has full historical records for all of them — here are the most notable by recorded value in 1086:

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A4 places

Ampthill Arlesey Aspley [Guise]Astwick

B15 places

[Great] Barford [Little] Barford Barton [-in-the-Clay]Battlesden Bedford Beeston Biddenham Biggleswade Billington Biscot Bletsoe Blunham Bolnhurst Bromham Broom

C18 places

Cainhoe Campton Cardington Carlton Chainhalle Chalgrave Chalton Chawston Chellington Chicksands Clapham Clifton Clophill Colmworth Cople Cranfield [Husborne] Crawley Cudessane

D3 places

[Lower and Upper] Dean Dunstable Dunton

E8 places

Eaton [Bray]Eaton [Socon]Edworth Eggington Elstow Elvedon Eversholt Eyeworth

F4 places

Farndish Felmersham Flitton Flitwick

G4 places

[Nares] Gladley Goldington Goldington [Highfields][Lower and Upper] Gravenhurst

H14 places

Hanefelde Harlington Harrold Harrowden [Cockayne] Hatley Haynes Henlow Higham [Gobion]Hinwick Hockliffe Holcot Holme Houghton [Conquest]Houghton [Regis]

K3 places

Kempston Kinwick Knotting

L4 places

Langford Leighton [Buzzard]Lidlington Luton

M7 places

Marston [Moretaine]Maulden Melchbourne Millbrook Millow Milton [Bryan]Milton [Ernest]

N2 places

Newton [Bromswold]Northill

O2 places

Oakley Odell

P8 places

Pavenham Pegsdon Podington Potsgrove Potton Priestley Pulloxhill Putnoe

R5 places

Radwell Ravensden Riseley Roxton Rushden

T8 places

Tempsford Thurleigh Tilbrook Tilsworth Tingrith Toddington Totternhoe Turvey

W9 places

[Old] Warden Westcotts Wilden Willington Wilshamstead Woburn Wootton Wyboston Wymington

Y1 place

Yelden

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