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, Wormsley was held by man-at-arms, one.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Wormsley in 1086, they recorded 3 manors held by man-at-arms, one, Leofric and Roger of Lacy, under Hereford (St Peter), canons of. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Hereford (St Peter), canons of, Alwy, Wulfnoth and Hadwy.
The settlement was assessed at 2 hides for tax. There was land for 1 plough, with 4 plough teams at work (1.5 in the lord's demesne and 2.5 held by the villagers). The recorded population was 4 heads of household: 2 villagers and 2 smallholders. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. The manors were valued at 1.0999999999999999 pounds in 1086, up from 16 shillings in 1066.
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 →
Wormsley 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 Wormsley'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.
1 recorded find has been logged within about 5 miles of Wormsley, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Wormsley is Lower Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated) (Early Devonian).
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.