How many places are in the Domesday Book for Staffordshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 335 settlements in Staffordshire. 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 Staffordshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 335 Staffordshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Staffordshire

Staffordshire

335 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Staffordshire has 335 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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A18 places

Acton [Trussell]Adbaston Agardsley Aldridge Almington Alrewas Alstone and [Lower] Alstone Alstonefield Alton Alveley Amblecote Amerton Apeton Ashley Aspley Aston Aston [-by-Stone]Audley

D12 places

Darlaston Denstone Derrington Dilhorne Dimsdale Doresley Doxey Draycott [-in-the-Clay]Drayton [Bassett]Drayton and [Lower] Drayton Drointon Dunston

E12 places

[Church] Eaton [Water] Eaton Eccleshall Edingale Elford Ellastone and [Lower and Upper] Ellastone Ellenhall Endon Enson Enville Estendone Ettingshall

F9 places

Farley Fauld Featherstone Fenton Flashbrook Forsbrook Fradswell Freeford Fulford

G5 places

Gailey Gayton Gnosall Gratwich Grindon

I1 place

Ingestre

K7 places

Kingsley Kingsnordley Kinvaston Knightley Knighton Knighton Knutton

L10 places

Leek Leigh Levedale Lichfield Little Sandon Littywood Longnor [Lower and Upper] Loxley Loynton Lufamesleg

N6 places

Newton Newton Norbury Normacot Norton [Canes]Norton [-in-the-Moors]

O11 places

Oaken Oakley Oakley [Bishops] Offley [High] Offley Okeover [High] Onn [Little] Onn Orton Otherton Oxley

P12 places

Packington Patshull Pattingham Pelsall Pendeford Penkhull Penkridge [Lower and Upper] Penn [Upper] Penn Perry [Old] Perton Podmore

R17 places

Ranton Rickerscote [Hamstall] Ridware [Mavesyn] Ridware [Pipe] Ridware Rocester Rodbaston Rolleston [-on-Dove]Rowley Rownall Rudge Rudyard Rugeley Ruscote Rushall Rushton Rushton

T16 places

Talke Tamhorn [Lower and Upper] Tean Tettenhall Thorpe [Constantine]Thursfield Tillington Tipton Tittensor Tixall Trentham Trysull Tunstall Tutbury Tymmor Tyrley

U1 place

Uttoxeter

Y2 places

Yarlet Yoxall

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