A place in Wiltshire 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, Beversbrook and Beversbrook was held by William Delamere.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Beversbrook and Beversbrook in 1086, they recorded 2 manors held by William Delamere and Nigel the doctor, under William of Eu. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Alstan of Boscombe and Alsi the priest.
The settlement was assessed at 3 hides for tax. There was land for 2 ploughs. The recorded population was 13 heads of household: 2 villagers, 9 smallholders and 2 slaves. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included woodland (1 * 0.5 furlongs). The manors were valued at 1.85 pounds 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 →
Beversbrook and Beversbrook was one of the settlements recorded in Wiltshire in the 1086 survey. Wiltshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Beversbrook and Beversbrook'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.
Nationally registered historic battlefields within 25 miles of Beversbrook and Beversbrook.
581 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Beversbrook and Beversbrook, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Beversbrook and Beversbrook is Corallian Group (Oxfordian).
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.