A place in Cheshire 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, Whalley was held by Albert Grelley.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Whalley in 1086, they recorded a manor held by Albert Grelley and Roger of Bully, who held from Roger of Poitou. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, it was held by (Blackburn), St Mary, church of, King Edward, (Whalley), St Mary, church of and free men, twenty-eight.
The settlement was assessed at 87 hides for tax. Its recorded resources included woodland (5 * 5 leagues).
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 →
Whalley was one of the settlements recorded in Cheshire in the 1086 survey. Cheshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Whalley'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.
569 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Whalley, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Whalley is Bowland High Group And Craven Group (Undifferentiated) (Bashkirian).
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.