How many places are in the Domesday Book for Norfolk?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 706 settlements in Norfolk. 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 Norfolk in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Norfolk 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 Norfolk Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 706 Norfolk settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Norfolk

Norfolk

706 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Norfolk has 706 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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B95 places

Babingley Baconsthorpe Bacton Bagthorpe Bale Banham Banningham Barford Barmer Barney Barnham [Broom][Little] Barningham [North] Barningham [East and West] Barsham Barton [Bendish]Barton [Turf]Barwick Bastwick [Wood] bastwick Bawburgh Bawdeswell Bawsey Bayfield Beccles Beck [East] Beckham [West] Beckham Bedingham Beechamwell Beeston [Regis]Beeston [St Andrew]Beeston [St Lawrence]Beetley Beighton Belaugh Bergh [Apton]Bessingham Besthorpe Bexwell Bickerston Billingford Billingford Billockby [West] Bilney Binham Bintree [Great] Bircham Bircham [Newton]Bircham [Tofts]Bittering Bixley Blakeney Blickling Blofield Bodham Bodney Booton Boughton Bowthorpe Boyland Bracon Ash [East and West] Bradenham Bradeston Bramerton Brampton Brancaster Brandiston Brandon [Parva]Breckles Bressingham Brettenham Bridgham Briningham Brinton Briston Brockdish Brooke Broome Broomsthorpe Brumstead Brundall Buckenham Buckenham Buckenham [Tofts]Burgh [-next-Aylsham]Burgh [St Margaret][South] Burgh [North] Burlingham [South] Burlingham Burnham [Norton, Sutton, Ulph and Westgate]Burnham [Overy]Burnham Thorpe Burston Buxton Bylaugh

E17 places

Earlham Earsham East Winch Easton Easton Eaton Eccles Eccles Edgefield Egmere Ellingham [Great] Ellingham [Little] Ellingham [North] Elmham Elsing Erpingham Eye

I10 places

Ickburgh Illington Ingham Ingloss Ingoldisthorpe Ingworth Intwood Irmingland Islington Itteringham

K18 places

Kelling Kempston Kenninghall Kenningham Kerdiston Keswick Ketteringham Kettlestone Kettleton Kilverstone Kimberley Kipton Kirby [Bedon]Kirby [Cane]Kirstead Kirtling Knapton Knettishall

N19 places

Narborough Narford Nayland Neatishead Necton Ness Neutuna Newton Newton Newton [Flotman][West] Newton North Barsham Northrepps Northwold [Blo] Norton [Pudding] Norton Norton [Subcourse][Wood] Norton Norwich

O10 places

Oby Osmondiston other Wretham Ottering [Hithe]Oulton Outwell Overstrand Oxborough Oxnead Oxwick

P14 places

Palgrave Palling Panworth Panxworth Paston Pattesley Pensthorpe Pentney [North and South] Pickenham Pirnhow Plumstead [Great and Little] Plumstead Poringland Postwick

Q2 places

Quarles Quidenham

S89 places

Saham [Toney]Sall Salthouse Sandringham Santon Saxlingham Saxlingham [Nethergate and Thorpe]Saxthorpe Scarning Schieteshaga Sco Scottow Scoulton Scratby Sculthorpe Sedgeford Seething Semere Sharrington Shelfanger Shelton Shereford Sheringham Shernborne Shimpling Shingham Shipden Shipdham Shotford Shropham Sidestrand Sisland Skeyton Sloley Smallburgh [Great] Snarehill [Little] Snarehill Snetterton Snettisham Snore [Great] Snoring [Little] Snoring [East and West] Somerton South Creake South Raynham Southery Southmere Southrepps Southwood Sparham Spixworth Sporle Sprowston Stalham Stanfield Stanford Stanhoe Stanninghall Starston Stibbard Stiffkey Stinton Stockton Stody Stoke [Ferry]Stoke [Holy Cross]Stokesby Stow [Bardolph]Stow [Bedon]Stradsett Stratton [Strawless]Strumpshaw Sturston Suffield Surlingham Sustead Sutton Sutton Swaffham Swafield Swainsthorpe Swannington Swanton Swanton [Abbot]Swanton [Morley]Swanton [Novers]Swardeston Swathing Syderstone

U2 places

Upton Upwell

Y4 places

Yarmouth Yaxham Yelverton ['Hunt'] Yelverton

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