A place in Buckinghamshire with a history you can trace through the records: its entry in the 1086 Domesday Book, the archaeological finds and scheduled monuments around it, and the nearest Roman sites and battlefields. Everything below is drawn from the historical record.
In 1086, Edlesborough was held by Gilbert of Ghent.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Edlesborough in 1086, they recorded 2 manors held by Gilbert of Ghent. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Ulf (Fenman).
The settlement was assessed at 30 hides for tax. There was land for 21 ploughs, with 22 plough teams at work (8 in the lord's demesne and 14 held by the villagers). The recorded population was 50 heads of household: 36 villagers, 4 smallholders and 10 slaves. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included meadow (4 ploughs), woodland (400 pigs) and 2 mills. The manors were valued at 18.04 pounds in 1086, down from 24 pounds in 1066.
The Domesday Book was the great survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085 and completed in 1086, the oldest surviving public record in the country. How the survey worked →
Edlesborough was one of the settlements recorded in Buckinghamshire in the 1086 survey. Buckinghamshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Edlesborough's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Nationally registered historic battlefields within 25 miles of Edlesborough.
746 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Edlesborough, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Edlesborough is Grey Chalk Subgroup (Cenomanian).
Aubrey's full report for this location includes every Domesday manor, the complete record of medieval lordship, archaeological context, and the story of how this settlement evolved from 1086 to the present day.