A place in Middlesex 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, Fulham was held by London (St Paul), bishop of.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Fulham in 1086, they recorded 3 manors held by London (St Paul), bishop of, burgesses of London, Frenchmen, Fulcred and London (St Paul), canons of. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by London (St Paul), bishop of, Freemen, two and London (St Paul), canons of.
The settlement was assessed at 50 hides for tax. There was land for 48 ploughs, with 36 plough teams at work (7 in the lord's demesne and 29 held by the villagers). The recorded population was 166 heads of household: 89 villagers, 22 smallholders, 53 cottagers and 2 slaves. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included meadow (40 ploughs) and woodland (1000 pigs). The manors were valued at 51 pounds in 1086, down from 65 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 →
Fulham was one of the settlements recorded in Middlesex in the 1086 survey. Middlesex in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Fulham'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 Fulham.
The bedrock beneath Fulham is Thames Group (Eocene).
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.