A place in Norfolk 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, Tibenham was held by Count Alan (of Brittany).
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Tibenham in 1086, they recorded 9 manors held by Count Alan (of Brittany), Roger Bigot, William, Richard, St Benet of Holme, abbey of, Eudo son of Spirewic and Walter Cnut, under (Bury) St Edmunds, abbey of. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by free man, one, free man, one and one half, free men, eight, free men, fifteen, free men, fourteen, free men, six, free men, three, free men, two, Freemen, seven, Freemen, six, Freemen, two, Coleman, Ulf, (Bury) St Edmunds, abbey of, St Benet of Holme, abbey of, Alric and men, twenty-six.
The settlement was assessed at 19.45 hides for tax. The record notes 46 plough teams at work (11.5 in the lord's demesne and 34.5 held by the villagers). The recorded population was 184 heads of household: 23 villagers, 113 smallholders, 43 freemen and 5 slaves. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included meadow (26 acres), woodland (22 pigs) and 0.2 mills. The manors were valued at 38.32 pounds in 1086, up from 19 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 →
Tibenham was one of the settlements recorded in Norfolk in the 1086 survey. Norfolk in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Tibenham'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.
184 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Tibenham, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Tibenham is White Chalk Subgroup (Maastrichtian).
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.