How many places are in the Domesday Book for Lincolnshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 743 settlements in Lincolnshire. 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 Lincolnshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 743 Lincolnshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

743 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Lincolnshire has 743 Domesday settlements. Aubrey has full historical records for all of them — here are the most notable by recorded value in 1086:

71.05000000000001 pounds in 1086

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B92 places

Banthorpe Bardney Barholm Barkston [East and West] Barkwith Barlings Barnetby [-le-Wold]Barnoldby [-le-Beck]Barrow [-upon-Humber]Barrowby Barton [-upon-Humber]Bassingham Bassingthorpe Baston Baumber Beckering Beelsby Beesby Beesby Belchford Belleau Beltoft Belton Belton [Long] Bennington Benniworth Bergestorp Bigby Billingborough Billinghay Bilsby Binbrook Birthorpe Biscathorpe Bitchfield Blankney Bleasby Bloxholm Blyborough Blyton Bodebi [Old] Bolingbroke Bonby Bonthorpe Boothby Boothby [Graffoe]Boothby [Pagnell]Bottesford Boultham Bourne Braceborough Bracebridge [Heath]Braceby Brackenborough Bradley Brampton Brandon Bransby Branston Branzuic Bratoft Brattleby Brauncewell Brigsley Brinkhill Brocklesby Broughton [Brant] Broughton Broxholme [Old] Brumby Bucknall Bulby Bullington Burg Burgh [-le-Marsh]Burgh [-on-Bain]Burnham [High and Low] Burnham Burreth Burtoft Burton Burton [-le-Coggles][Gate] Burton Burton [Pedwardine]Burton [-upon-Stather]Burwell Buslingthorpe Butchett Butterwick [West] Butterwick [Castle] Bytham [Little] Bytham

E15 places

Eagle East Keal Easton Edenham Edlington [North and South] Elkington Elsham Elsthorpe [Bag] Enderby [Mavis] Enderby [Wood] Enderby Epworth Eresby Evedon Ewerby

I8 places

Immingham Ingham Ingleby Ingoldmells Ingoldsby Irby [-upon-Humber]Irnham Itterby

O19 places

Oasby Obthorpe Old Leake Orby Orford [North] Ormsby [South] Ormsby Osbournby Oseby Osgodby Osgodby Osgodby Otby [North and South] Owersby Owersby Owmby Owmby [-by-Spital]Owston [Ferry]Oxcombe

P7 places

Panton Partney Pickworth Pilham Pinchbeck Pointon Potterhanworth

Q2 places

Quadring Quarrington

S101 places

Saleby Salmonby Saltfleet Santon Sapperton Sawcliffe Saxby Saxby [All Saints]Scamblesby Scampton Scartho Scawby Scopwick Scothern Scotter Scotterthorpe Scottlethorpe Scotton Scredington Scremby Scrivelsby Scunthorpe Searby Sedgebrook Sempringham Sibsey Sixhills Skellingthorpe Skendleby Skidbrooke Skinnand Skirbeck [New and Old] Sleaford Sloothby Snarford Snelland Snitterby Somerby Somerby [Old] Somerby [North and South] Somercotes Somercotes Somersby Somerton Sotby Southorpe Southrey Souththorpe Spalding Spanby Spilsby Spridlington Springthorpe Stainby Stainfield Stainfield Stainton Stainton [-by-Langworth]Stainton [-le-Vale][Market] Stainton Stallingborough Stapleford [Great] Steeping [Little] Steeping Stenigot Stenwith Stewton Steyning Stickford Stickney Stixwould Stoke [Rochford]Stow Stow [St Mary]Stowe Stroxton Strubby Strubby Stubton Sturton Sturton [-by-Stow][Great] Sturton [Little] Sturton Sudbrooke Sudtone Sudwelle Surfleet Sutterby [Long] Sutton Sutton [-on-Sea]Swaby Swallow Swarby Swaton Swayfield Swinderby Swine Swinhope Swinstead Swinthorpe Syston

U4 places

Ulceby Ulceby Upperthorpe Upton

Y3 places

Yaddlethorpe Yarburgh Yawthorpe

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