A place in Lincolnshire 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, Scrivelsby was held by King William.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Scrivelsby in 1086, they recorded 2 manors held by King William and Robert the bursar. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Queen Edith and Siward (father of Aki).
The settlement was assessed at 11.49 hides for tax. There was land for 8.5 ploughs, with 18 plough teams at work (6 in the lord's demesne and 12 held by the villagers). The recorded population was 89 heads of household: 16 villagers, 23 smallholders and 50 freemen. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included meadow (200 acres), woodland (6 acres) and 1 mill. The manors were valued at 14 pounds in 1086, up from 12 pounds 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 →
Scrivelsby was one of the settlements recorded in Lincolnshire in the 1086 survey. Lincolnshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Scrivelsby'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.
Nationally registered historic battlefields within 25 miles of Scrivelsby.
161 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Scrivelsby, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Scrivelsby is West Walton Formation, Ampthill Clay Formation And Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Undifferentiated) (Kimmeridgian).
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.