How many places are in the Domesday Book for Hampshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 448 settlements in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Hampshire 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 Hampshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 448 Hampshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Hampshire

Hampshire

448 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Hampshire has 448 Domesday settlements. Aubrey has full historical records for all of them — here are the most notable by recorded value in 1086:

Cranbourne and Cranbourne

90.5 pounds in 1086

Micheldever

90.5 pounds in 1086

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D14 places

[East] Dean [West] Dean Deane Dibden Dogmersfield Done Drayton Droxford Dummer Duna Dunbridge Dungewood Durley Durton

E19 places

Eastleigh Eastoke Easton [Crux] Easton Eastrop Ecchinswell Efford Eling Ellingham Ellisfield Elvetham Embley Empshott Enham Eversley Ewhurst Exbury Exton Eyeworth

F18 places

Faccombe Fareham Farleigh [Wallop]Farley [Chamberlayne]Farnborough [Lower and Upper] Farringdon Fawley Fernhill Finley Fordingbridge Foxcotte Fratton Freefolk Freshwater [Lower and Upper] Froyle Fullerton Funtley Fyfield

G7 places

Gatcombe Gatewood Goodworth [Clatford][North and South] Gorley Gotten Greatham Gritnam

I3 places

Ibsley Itchel Itchen [Abbas]

K9 places

Kempshott Kern Kilmeston Kimpton Kingsclere Kingston Knapp Knighton Knowl

L19 places

Langley Langley Lasham Laverstoke Leckford Lessland Linkenholt Liss Litchfield Littleton Lockerley Lomer Loverston Luccombe Ludshott Luton Lychpit Lymington Lyndhurst

N15 places

Nately Neatham Netley Nettlestone Newtimber Newton [Stacey]Newton [Valence]Ningwood Niton Norton Norton Nunwell Nursling Nutlei Nutley

O8 places

Oakhanger Oakley Odiham Otterbourne Otterwood Outwick Overton Ower

P10 places

[Great and Little] Pan Penton [Grafton]Penton [Mewsey]Pilley Pittleworth Polhampton Popham Portchester Preston Puckpool

Q1 place

Quarley

R12 places

Redbridge Rhode Ringwood Ripley Rockbourne Rockford Rockstead Rollstone Romsey Roud Rowborough Rowner

T15 places

Tatchbury Thorley Througham Thruxton Tidgrove [South] Tidworth Timsbury [West] Tisted Titchfield Totton Tufton Tunworth Twyford [East] Tytherley [West] Tytherley

U1 place

Upton

Y4 places

Yafford Yarmouth Yaverland Yavington

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