How many places are in the Domesday Book for Herefordshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 307 settlements in Herefordshire. 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 Herefordshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 307 Herefordshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Herefordshire

Herefordshire

307 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Herefordshire has 307 Domesday settlements. Aubrey has full historical records for all of them — here are the most notable by recorded value in 1086:

Bromyard

45.5 pounds in 1086

Leominster

36.900000000000006 pounds in 1086

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A14 places

Adforton Adley Ailey Almeley Almundestune Alton Amberley Ashe [Ingen]Ashperton Ashton Aston Aston [Ingham]Avenbury Aymestrey

D8 places

Dewsall Didley Dinedor Discoed Donnington Dormington Dorstone Downton [-on-the-Rock]

E11 places

Eardisland Eardisley Eastnor Eaton [Hill-of-] Eaton Edwyn [Ralph]Elnodestune Elton Evesbatch Ewyas [Harold]Eyton

F11 places

Farlow Felton Fencote Fernhill Ford Fownhope [Bishops] Frome [Canon] Frome [Castle] Frome [Halmonds] Frome [Priors] Frome

G3 places

Garway Gattertop Grendon

I1 place

Ivington

K7 places

Kenchester Kilpeck Kingsland Kingstone Kington Kinnersley Knill

N5 places

Nash Newton Newton Noakes Norton [Canon]

O3 places

Ocle [Pychard][Livers] Ocle Orleton

P15 places

Pedwardine Pembridge Pencombe Pilleth Pipe Pixley Pontrilas Pontshill Poston Preston [-on-Wye]Preston [Wynne]Pudleston Putley [Canon] Pyon [Kings] Pyon

R6 places

[Old] Radnor Risbury Ross [-on-Wye]Rotherwas Rowden Rushock

T12 places

Tarrington and [Little] Tarrington Tedstone [Delamere and Wafre]The Bage The Vern Thinghill Thornbury Thruxton Titley Treville Tumberland Tupsley Tyberton

U4 places

Ullingswick Upleadon [Lower and Nun] Upton Upton [Bishop]

V1 place

Venns [Green]

Y5 places

Yarkhill Yarpole Yarsop Yatton Yazor

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