How many places are in the Domesday Book for Berkshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 221 settlements in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Berkshire 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 Berkshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 221 Berkshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Berkshire

Berkshire

221 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Berkshire has 221 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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A12 places

Abingdon Albury Aldermaston Aldworth Appleford Appleton Ardington Ashbury Ashden Aston [Tirrold]Aston [Upthorpe]Avington

D9 places

Dedworth [North] Denchworth [South] Denchworth Denford Donnington Dorchester Draycott [Moor]Drayton Duxford

E10 places

Earley East Garston Easthampstead Eaton Eaton [Hastings]Eddington [East and West] Eling Enborne Englefield Ewelme

F10 places

[Great] Faringdon Farnborough Fawler [Great] Fawley [Little] Fawley Finchampstead Frilford Frilsham Fulscot Fyfield

G6 places

Garford [East] Ginge [West] Ginge Goosey Gratentun Greenham

H15 places

[East and West] Hagbourne Hampstead [Norris]Hamstead [Marshall][East] Hanney [West] Hanney Hartley Hartridge Harwell [Great and Little] Haseley Hastings Hatford [East and West] Hendred Hinton [Waldrist]Hodcott Hurley

I4 places

[East and West] Ilsley Inglewood Inkpen Irish Hill

K5 places

Kennington Kingston [Bagpuize]Kingston Lisle Kintbury Knighton

L14 places

Lambourn Langley?Leckhampstead [Bessels] Leigh Letcombe [Bassett]Letcombe [Regis]Leverton Littleworth [East] Lockinge [West] Lockinge Lollingdon Longworth Losfield Lyford

M5 places

Maidenhead Marcham Midgham Milton [North and South] Moreton

N5 places

Nakedthorn Newbury Newington Newnham [Murren]Newton

O3 places

Odstone Ortone Oxford

P6 places

Padworth Pangbourne Peasemore Purley Pusey Pyrton

R2 places

Reading Remenham

T2 places

Thatcham Tubney

U4 places

Uffington Ufton [Nervet]Ufton [Robert]Upton

Y1 place

Yattendon

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