How many places are in the Domesday Book for Essex?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 435 settlements in Essex. 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 Essex in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Essex 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 Essex Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 435 Essex settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Essex

Essex

435 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Essex has 435 Domesday settlements. Aubrey has full historical records for all of them — here are the most notable by recorded value in 1086:

Colchester

180.75 pounds in 1086

Maldon

135.55 pounds in 1086

Writtle

122 pounds in 1086

Ipswich

90.05999999999999 pounds in 1086

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A15 places

Abberton Alderford Alderton [Hall]Aldham Alphamstone Alresford Amberden [Hall]Ardleigh Arkesden Ashdon Asheldham Ashen Ashingdon Ashwell [Hall]Aveley

D14 places

[Field] Dalling Danbury Debden Debden [Green]Dedham Dengie Derleigh Dickley Doddinghurst [East] Donyland Dovercourt Down [Hall][Great and Little] Dunmow Dunton

E10 places

[Good] Easter [High] Easter Easthorpe [Great and Little] Easton Eastwood Elmdon Elmstead Elsenham Emanuel [Wood]Epping

G6 places

Gestingthorpe Goldhanger Goldingham [Hall]Gravesend Greenstead Greensted

I5 places

Ilford Iltney [Farm]Ingatestone Ingrave Ipswich

J1 place

Jacques Hall

K3 places

Kelvedon Kelvedon [Hatch]Kenningtons

N12 places

Napsted Navestock Nayland Nazeing Nevendon Newland [Hall]Newnham [Hall]Newton [Hall]Northey Island [Cold] Norton Norton [Mandeville][Black and White] Notley

O12 places

[Great] Oakley [Little] Oakley [North and South] Ockendon Old Hall [Chipping] Ongar [High] Ongar Orsett Osea [Island]other Fyfield other Moulsham [Hall]other Navestock Ovington

P19 places

Paglesham Panfield [Great and Little] Parndon Paslow [Hall]Patching [Hall]Pebmarsh Peldon Pentlow Peyton [Hall]Pinchpools Pitsea Pledgdon [Hall]Plesingho Plumberow Plunker's [Green]Prested Prittlewell Pudsey [Hall]Purleigh

Q2 places

Quendon Quicksbury

U4 places

Ugley Uleham's [Farm]Ulting Upminster

V2 places

Vange Virley

Y2 places

Yardley [Great and Little] Yeldham

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