How many places are in the Domesday Book for Wiltshire?

The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 351 settlements in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire in the Domesday Book?

In the Domesday Book, Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire Domesday records?

Browse the full list of 351 Wiltshire settlements below, or search by village name. Each settlement page shows the 1086 lord, tenant-in-chief, land value, ploughlands, and population.

Domesday Book · Wiltshire

Wiltshire

351 Domesday villages

Recorded in William the Conqueror's survey of 1086

Notable settlements

Wiltshire has 351 Domesday settlements. Aubrey has full historical records for all of them — here are the most notable by recorded value in 1086:

Chippenham

116.75 pounds in 1086

Melksham

115.05 pounds in 1086

108.82000000000001 pounds in 1086

105.67 pounds in 1086

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A18 places

Ablington Addestone Aldbourne Alderbury Alderstone Alderton Allington Allington Alton Alton [Barnes]Alton [Priors]Alvestone Ansty Ashley [Steeple and West] Ashton Ashton [Gifford]Ashton [Keynes]Avebury

D17 places

Damerham Dauntsey Deptford Deverill [Brixton] Deverill [Hill] Deverill [Kingston] Deverill [Longbridge and Monkton] Deverill Dinton Ditchampton Ditteridge Downton Draycot [Cerne]Draycot [Fitzpayne]Draycot [Foliat][Great and Little] Durnford Durrington

E12 places

Earlscourt Easton Easton [Grey]Easton [Piercy] and [Lower] Easton [Piercy][Castle] Eaton Ebbesborne [Wake]Edington Elcombe Elston Enford Etchilhampton Eysey

F13 places

[Monkton] Farleigh Fifield [Bavant]Figheldean Fisherton [Anger]Fisherton [-de-la-Mere]Fittleton Fonthill [Bishop]Fonthill [Gifford]Fosbury Fovant Foxley Frustfield Fyfield

G9 places

Garsdon Gillingham Gore [East and West] Grafton [East and West] Grimstead Grittleton Groundwell Grovely Gussage [St Michael]

H20 places

Ham Hampton Hannington Hardenhuish Harding Hartham Hazelbury Heddington Heytesbury Highway Highworth Hilmarton Hilperton [Broad] Hinton Homington Horningsham Huish Hullavington Hurdcott Hurdcott

I2 places

Idmiston Imber

K10 places

Keevil Kellaways Kemble [East and West] Kennett Kilmington Kington [St Michael]Knighton Knook [East] Knoyle [West] Knoyle

M14 places

Maddington Malmesbury Manningford [Abbots, Bohune and Bruce]Manton Marden Marlborough Marten Melksham Mere Middleton Mildenhall Milford Milston Moredon

N9 places

Nechendune Netheravon Nettleton [Long] Newnton [North] Newnton [South] Newton Newton [Toney]Norton Norton [Bavant]

O5 places

Oaksey Odstock Orcheston [East] Overton [West] Overton

P11 places

Pertwood Pewsey Plaitford Pomeroy Poole [Keynes]Porton Potterne Poulshot Poulton Poulton Purton

R6 places

Ramsbury Ratfyn Rockley Rodbourne Rowde Rushall

T15 places

Teffont [Evias]Thickwood Thornhill Tidcombe [North] Tidworth Tilshead Tisbury Tockenham and Tockenham [Court]Tollard [Royal]Trow Trowbridge Trowle Tytherington Tytherley [East and West] Tytherton

U6 places

Uffcott Ugford Upavon Upton [Lovell]Upton [Scudamore]Urchfont

Y3 places

Yarnfield Yatesbury Yatton [Keynell]

Z1 place

Zeals

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