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, Flixton was held by Bishop William (of Thetford).
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Flixton in 1086, they recorded 3 manors held by Bishop William (of Thetford), William of Noyers and Geoffrey, under Eudo son of Spirewic. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Eskil, free men, eight, Brictnoth, free man, one, free men, three, Offa and free men, two.
The settlement was assessed at 4.52 hides for tax. The record notes 21.8 plough teams at work (3 in the lord's demesne and 18.8 held by the villagers). The recorded population was 42.5 heads of household: 10 villagers, 30.5 smallholders and 2 slaves. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included meadow (2 acres), woodland (12 pigs) and 0.7 mills. The manors were valued at 7.779999999999999 pounds in 1086, up from 4.3100000000000005 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 →
Flixton 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 Flixton'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.
117 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Flixton, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Flixton 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.