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, Marlow and Marlow was held by Theodwald.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Marlow and Marlow in 1086, they recorded 4 manors held by Theodwald, Ralph, Roger, Walter of Vernon and Queen Matilda, under Bishop Odo of Bayeux and Miles Crispin. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Queen Edith, Hemming of Branston, Godric and Earl Algar.
The settlement was assessed at 34.99 hides for tax. There was land for 42 ploughs, with 40.5 plough teams at work (7.5 in the lord's demesne and 33 held by the villagers). The recorded population was 107 heads of household: 63 villagers, 39 smallholders and 5 slaves. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included meadow (2 ploughs), woodland (50 pigs) and 2 mills. The manors were valued at 40 pounds in 1086, up from 22 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 →
Marlow and Marlow 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 Marlow and Marlow'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 Marlow and Marlow.
376 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Marlow and Marlow, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Marlow and Marlow is White Chalk Subgroup (Maastrichtian).
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.