How many places are in the Domesday Book for Northamptonshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 358 settlements in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 358 Northamptonshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

358 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Northamptonshire has 358 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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D12 places

Dallington Daventry Deene Denford Denton Desborough Dingley [Great] Doddington Dodford Draughton Duddington Duston

E12 places

Easton [Maudit]Easton [-on-the-Hill]Easton Neston Ecton Edgcote Elkington Elmington Empingham Essendine Evenley Everdon Eydon

F11 places

[East] Farndon [West] Farndon Farthinghoe Farthingstone Fawsley Faxton Finedon Flore Fotheringhay Foxley Furtho

G13 places

Gayton Geddington Glassthorpe [hill]Glaston Glendon Glinton Grafton [Regis]Grafton [Underwood]Greatworth Grendon Gretton Grimsbury Guilsborough

I4 places

Irchester Irthlingborough Isham Islip

K9 places

Kelmarsh Kettering Ketton Kilsby Kingsthorpe Kingsthorpe Kirby Kislingbury Knuston

L13 places

Lamport Lapley Laxton Lenton Lilbourne Lilford Litchborough Little Weldon Loddington Lowick [North] Luffenham [South] Luffenham Lyddington

M12 places

Maidford Maidwell Marston Marston [St Lawrence]Marston [Trussell]Middleton [Cheney]Milton Milton [Malsor]Morcott Moreton [Pinkney]Moulton Muscott

N10 places

Naseby Nassington Newbottle Newbottle Newton Nobottle Northampton Nortoft Norton [Greens] Norton

O6 places

[Great] Oakley Old Orlingbury Orton Oundle [Great and Little] Oxendon

P18 places

Passenham Pattishall Paulerspury Peterborough Piddington Pilsgate Pilton Pipewell Pitsford Plumpton Polebrook Portland Potterspury Preston [Capes]Preston [Deanery][Great and Little] Purston Puxley Pytchley

Q1 place

Quinton

R9 places

Radstone Raunds Ravensthorpe Roade Rockingham Rothersthorpe Rothwell Rushton Ryhall

U2 places

Uffington Upton

Y2 places

Yardley [Hastings]Yelvertoft

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