How many places are in the Domesday Book for Warwickshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 260 settlements in Warwickshire. 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 Warwickshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 260 Warwickshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Warwickshire

Warwickshire

260 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Warwickshire has 260 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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A17 places

Ailstone Alne Alspath Altone Alveston Ansley Ansty Arlescote [Old] Arley Arrow Ashow Astley Aston Aston [Cantlow]Atherstone Atherstone [-on-Stour]Austrey

D7 places

[Avon] Dassett [Burton] Dassett Ditchford Donnelie [Little] Dorsington Dosthill Dunchurch

E8 places

Edgbaston Edstone Elmdon Erdington Ermendone Essington Ettington Exhall

F7 places

Farnborough Fillongley Flecknoe Foleshill Frankton [Lower and Upper] Fulbrook Fulready

G5 places

[Ardens] Grafton [Temple] Grafton Grandborough Grendon Guildborough

H17 places

Hampton [-in-Arden]Hampton [Lucy]Handsworth Harborne Harborough [Magna and Parva]Harbury [Priors] Hardwick Hartshill Haseley Haselor Hill Hillborough Hillmorton Hodnell Honington Hopsford Hunningham

I4 places

Idlicote Ilmington [Bishops] Itchington [Long] Itchington

K7 places

Kenilworth Kineton Kineton [Green]Kingsbury Kington [Grange]Kinwarton [Monks] Kirby

L15 places

Ladbroke Langley Lapworth [Church] Lawford [Little] Lawford [Long] Lawford Lea [Marston]Leamington [Hastings]Leamington [Spa]Lichfield Lighthorne Lillington Longdon Loxley Luddington

M15 places

Mackadown Mappleborough Marston [Butlers] Marston Marston [Green]Marston [Jabbett]Marston [-on-Avon]Marton Middleton Milcote [Old] Milverton Minworth Moreton [Morrell]Morton [Bagot]Myton

N10 places

Napton [-on-the-Hill]Newbold [Comyn]Newbold [-on-Avon]Newbold [Pacey]Newbold [Revel]Newnham Newnham [Paddox]Newton Norton [Lindsey]Nuneaton

O4 places

Offord Optone Oversley Oxhill

P5 places

Packington and [Little] Packington Perry [Barr]Pillerton [Hersey]Pillerton [Priors]Preston [Bagot]

Q1 place

Quatt

R10 places

[Lower and Upper] Radbourn Radford [Semele]Radway Ratley Romsley Roundshill Rowington Rudge Rugby Ryton [-on-Dunsmore]

T5 places

[Bishops] Tachbrook Tachbrook [Mallory]Tamworth Thurlaston [Lower, Middle and Upper] Tysoe

U4 places

Ufton Ullenhall Ulverley [Green]Upton

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