How many places are in the Domesday Book for Buckinghamshire?

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

In the Domesday Book, Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire Domesday records?

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

Domesday Book · Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

221 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Buckinghamshire has 221 Domesday settlements. Aubrey has full historical records for all of them — here are the most notable by recorded value in 1086:

39.599999999999994 pounds in 1086

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A12 places

Addingrove Addington Adstock Akeley Amersham Ashendon Aston [Abbots]Aston [Clinton][Ivinghoe] Aston Aston [Sandford]Astwood Aylesbury

D12 places

Dadford Datchet Denham Dilehurst Dinton Ditton Dorney Dorton Drayton [Beauchamp]Drayton [Parslow]Droitwich Dunton

E9 places

Easington East Burnham [Water] Eaton Edgcott Edlesborough Ellesborough Emberton Eton Evershaw

F3 places

Farnham [Royal]Fawley Foxcote

G5 places

Gawcott Gayhurst Granborough Grendon [Underwood]Grove

I5 places

Ibstone Ickford Ilmer Iver Ivinghoe

K2 places

[Great] Kimble Kingsey

L15 places

Lamport Lathbury Lavendon Leckhampstead Lenborough Lillingstone [Dayrell]Lillingstone [Lovell][Great] Linford [Little] Linford Linslade Little Kimble Littlecote Loughton Lude Ludgershall

M13 places

Marlow and [Little] Marlow Marsh [Gibbon][Fleet] Marston [North] Marston Marsworth Medmenham Mentmore Milton [Keynes][Great] Missenden [Little] Missenden [Maids] Moreton Moulsoe Mursley

N3 places

Nashway Newport [Pagnell]Newton [Longville]

O3 places

Oakley Olney Oving

P4 places

Padbury Pitstone [Lower and Upper] Pollicott Preston [Bissett]

Q2 places

Quainton Quarrendon

R4 places

Radclive Ravenstone [Monks] Risborough [Princes] Risborough

T11 places

Taplow Tetchwick Thornborough Thornton Tickford Tingewick Turville Turweston Twyford Tyringham Tythrop

U2 places

Upton Upton

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