A place in Northamptonshire 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, Stamford was held by King William.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Stamford in 1086, they recorded 10 manors held by King William.
The settlement was assessed at 155 hides for tax. Its recorded resources included meadow (45 acres) and 3.5 mills. The manors were valued at 56.5 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 →
Stamford was one of the settlements recorded in Northamptonshire in the 1086 survey. Northamptonshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Stamford'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.
467 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Stamford, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Stamford is Great Oolite Group (Bathonian).
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.