How many places are in the Domesday Book for Shropshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 436 settlements in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Shropshire 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 Shropshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 436 Shropshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Shropshire

Shropshire

436 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Shropshire has 436 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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D13 places

Dawley [Magna]Dawley [Parva]Detton Deuxhill Dinthill [Earls] Ditton Ditton [Priors]Dodington Donington Dorrington [Market] Drayton [Little] Drayton Dudston

F12 places

Faintree and [Lower] Faintree Farley Felton [Butler][West] Felton Fenemere Fitz Ford Forden Forton Fouswardine [English] Frankton Frodesley

G5 places

Glazeley Golding Gravenhunger Gretton Grinshill

I3 places

Ightfield Ingardine Isombridge

K9 places

Kemberton Kempton Kenley Kinlet Kinnerley [Lower and Upper] Kinsham?Knighton Kynaston Kynnersley

N10 places

Neen [Savage]Neen [Sollars]Neenton [Great] Ness [Little] Ness Netley Norton Norton Norton Norton [-in-Hales]

O11 places

Oaks Obley Oldbury Onibury Onneley Onslow Osbaston Oswestry [Castle]Overs Overton [Great and Little] Oxenbold

Q1 place

Quatford

R11 places

Ratlinghope Rhiston Rodington Rorrington Rossall Rowton Rowton Rushbury Ruthall Ruyton [-Eleven-Towns]Ryton

T10 places

Tetstill The Gaer The Sheet Tibberton Ticklerton Tittenley Tong Trelystan Trewern Tugford

U6 places

Uckington Uffington Uppington Upton [Cressett]Upton [Magna][Waters] Upton

Y4 places

Yagdons Yeaton Yockleton Yorton

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