Domesday Book

All references below are sourced from the Open Domesday Resource – all links on this page are to the resource.

Maps and site by Anna Powell-Smith. Domesday data created by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team.


Stubton was a settlement in Domesday Book, in the hundred of Loveden and the county of Lincolnshire.

It had a recorded population of 30 households in 1086, putting it in the largest 40% of settlements recorded in Domesday, and is listed under 3 owners in Domesday Book.

Land of Norman of Arcy

Households 

  • Households: 1 smallholder. 

Land and resources 

  • Ploughland: 1 ploughland. 
  • Other resources: Meadow 34 acres. 

Valuation 

  • Annual value to lord: 5 shillings in 1086; 10 shillings in 1066.

Owners 

Other information 

  • Possibly waste (ambiguous) when acquired by current owner.
  • Waste in 1086.
  • Phillimore reference: Lincolnshire 32,26

Land of Norman of Arcy

Households 

  • Households: 3 smallholders. 

Land and resources 

  • Ploughland: 1 ploughland. 0.5 lord’s plough teams. 
  • Other resources: Meadow 5 acres. 

Valuation 

  • Annual value to lord: 10 shillings in 1086; 10 shillings in 1066.

Owners 

Other information 

  • Phillimore reference: Lincolnshire 32,27

Land of Geoffrey Alselin

Households 

  • Households: 20 freemen. 5 smallholders. 1 priest. 

Land and resources 

  • Ploughland: 7 ploughlands. 1 lord’s plough teams. 7 men’s plough teams. 
  • Other resources: Meadow 120 acres. 1 church. 

Owners 

Other information 

  • Phillimore reference: Lincolnshire 64,14