How many places are in the Domesday Book for Middlesex?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 61 settlements in Middlesex. 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 Middlesex in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Middlesex 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 Middlesex Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 61 Middlesex settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Middlesex

Middlesex

61 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Middlesex has 61 Domesday settlements. Aubrey has full historical records for all of them — here are the most notable by recorded value in 1086:

Stepney

76.57000000000001 pounds in 1086

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A1 place

Ashford

B3 places

[East] Bedfont [West] Bedfont Bishopsgate

C5 places

Charlton Chelsea Colham Cowley Cranford

D2 places

Dawley [West] Drayton

E3 places

Ebury Edmonton Enfield

F2 places

Feltham Fulham

G1 place

Greenford

H16 places

Haggerston Hampstead Hampton Hanwell Hanworth Harefield and Harefield [South]Harlesden Harlington Harmondsworth Harrow Hatton Hayes Hendon Hillingdon Holborn Hoxton

I3 places

Ickenham Isleworth Islington

K3 places

Kempton Kensington Kingsbury

L2 places

Laleham Lisson

M2 places

Marylebone [South] Mimms

N2 places

[Stoke] Newington Northolt

R2 places

Rug Moor Ruislip

S8 places

Shepperton St Pancras Staines Stanmore [Little] Stanmore Stanwell Stepney Sunbury

T4 places

Tollington Tottenham Tottenham [Court]Twyford

W2 places

Westminster Willesden

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