A place in Suffolk 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, Debach was held by Count Alan (of Brittany).
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Debach in 1086, they recorded 8 manors held by Count Alan (of Brittany), Turstin son of Guy, Roger of Poitou, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, Robert (of Glanville), Geoffrey de Mandeville, Ranulf Peverel and Countess of Aumale (Adelaide), under Roger Bigot and William of Warenne. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Edric Grim, free man, one, free men, two and one half and free men, three.
The settlement was assessed at 0.79 hides for tax. Its recorded resources included meadow (1 acres). The manors were valued at 13 shillings in 1086.
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 →
Debach was one of the settlements recorded in Suffolk in the 1086 survey. Suffolk in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Debach'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.
18 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Debach, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Debach is Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated) (Quaternary).
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.