How many places are in the Domesday Book for Cambridgeshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 149 settlements in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 149 Cambridgeshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

149 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Cambridgeshire has 149 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

[Great and Little] Abington Abington [Pigotts]Arrington Ashley

B12 places

Babraham Badlingham Balsham Barham Barrington Barton Bassingbourn Bottisham Bourn Boxworth Burrough [Green]Burwell

C18 places

Caldecote Cambridge [Castle and Shudy] Camps Carlton Caxton Chatteris [Great] Chesterford Chesterton Cheveley Childerley Chippenham Clopton Comberton Conington Coton Cottenham Croxton Croydon

D6 places

Doddington Downham [Dry] Drayton [Fen] Drayton Dullingham Duxford

E6 places

Elsworth Eltisley Ely [Great and Little] Eversden Exning Eynesbury

F5 places

Fenstanton Fordham Fowlmere Foxton Fulbourn

G5 places

Gamlingay Girton [Little] Gransden Grantchester Graveley

H17 places

Haddenham Hainey Hardwick Harlton Harston Haslingfield [East] Hatley Hatley [St George]Hauxton Hildersham Hill [Row][Cherry] Hinton Hinton [Hall]Hinxton Histon Horningsea Horseheath

I3 places

Ickleton Impington Isleham

K4 places

Kennett Kingston Kirtling Knapwell

L9 places

Landbeach Linden [End]Linton [Little] Linton Litlington Little Thetford Littleport Lolworth Longstowe

M7 places

Madingley March Melbourn Meldreth Milton [Guilden] Morden [Steeple] Morden

N2 places

Newport Nosterfield [End]

O3 places

Oakington Orwell Over

P1 place

Pampisford

Q1 place

Quy

R1 place

Rampton

S17 places

Sawston Saxon [Street][Great and Little] Shelford Shepreth Shingay Silverley Snailwell Soham Stapleford Stetchworth Stow Streetly Stretham Stuntney Sutton Swaffham [Bulbeck and Prior]Swavesey

T6 places

Tadlow Teversham Thorney Thriplow Toft Trumpington

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