How many places are in the Domesday Book for Huntingdonshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 98 settlements in Huntingdonshire. 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 Huntingdonshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Huntingdonshire 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 Huntingdonshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 98 Huntingdonshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire

98 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Huntingdonshire has 98 Domesday settlements. Aubrey has full historical records for all of them — here are the most notable by recorded value in 1086:

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A2 places

Alconbury Alwalton

B11 places

Bluntisham Botolph Bridge Botuluesbrige Boughton Boxted Brampton Brington Broughton Buckden Buckworth Bythorn

C8 places

Caldecote Caldecote Catworth Chesterton Colne Conington Coppingford Covington

D3 places

Denton Diddington Dillington

E4 places

Easton Ellington Elton Everton

F1 place

Folksworth

G9 places

[Great and Little] Gidding [Great] Gidding [Steeple] Gidding Glatton Godmanchester Grafham Great Gransden Great Paxton Great Staughton

H9 places

Haddon Hamerton Hargrave Hartford Hemingford [Abbots]Hemingford [Grey]Holywell Houghton Huntingdon

K3 places

Keysoe Keyston Kimbolton

L4 places

Leighton [Bromswold]Little Catworth Luddington [-in-the-Brook]Lutton

M2 places

Molesworth Morborne

N1 place

[Water] Newton

O5 places

Offord [Cluny]Offord [d'Arcy]Old Fletton Orton [Longueville]Orton [Waterville]

P3 places

Papworth [St Agnes][West] Perry Pertenhall

R2 places

Ramsey [Abbots] Ripton

S12 places

Sawtry Sibson Somersham Southoe Spaldwick St Ives Stanground Stibbington Stilton [Great] Stukeley [Little] Stukeley Swineshead

T1 place

Thurning

U2 places

Upton Upwood

W14 places

Warboys Waresley Washingley Weald [Alconbury] Weston [Hail] Weston [Old] Weston Whittlesey Mere Winwick Wistow Woodston Woodwalton Woolley Wyton

Y2 places

Yaxley Yelling

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