A place in Herefordshire 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, Ewyas was held by Osbern.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Ewyas in 1086, they recorded 3 manors held by Osbern, William (Devereux), Roger (of Lacy), Alfred of Marlborough, Arnold, a man-at-arms, Gilbert, Ralph, Richard, Turstin (of Wigmore), Warner of Ewyas, William, (another) William and (a third) William, under Roger of Lacy and Henry of Ferrers.
The settlement was assessed at 14.26 hides for tax. There was land for 2 ploughs, with 18 plough teams at work (11 in the lord's demesne and 7 held by the villagers). The recorded population was 34 heads of household: 31 smallholders and 3 slaves. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included meadow (22 acres). The manors were valued at 11.32 pounds in 1086.
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 →
Ewyas was one of the settlements recorded in Herefordshire in the 1086 survey. Herefordshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ewyas'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.
10 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Ewyas, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Ewyas is Pridoli Rocks (Undifferentiated) (Pridoli).
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.