Monument record 0854200000 - Aylesbury town

Aylesbury, a household manor of the King, always answered for 16 hides. Land for 16 ploughs; in lordship 2. 20 villagers with 14 smallholders have 10 ploughs; a further 4 possible. 2 slaves; 2 mills at 23s; meadow for 8 ploughs; from the remainder, 20s. In total value it pays £56 assayed and weighed and from tolls £10 at face value; before 1066 it paid £25 at face value. In this manor there was and is one Freeman who has 1 virgate of land which he could grant or sell to whom he would; however he always serves the King's Sheriff. The Bishop of Lincoln holds the church of this manor.
[Entry for Stoke [Mandeville]] This manor lies with the (lands of) Aylesbury Church. Bishop Wulfwy held this manor with the church before 1066. From the eight hundreds which lie in the circuit of Aylesbury, each Freeman who has 1 hide or more pays one load of corn to this church. Furthermore from each Freeman 1 acre of corn or 4d was paid over to this church before 1066, but after the coming of King William it was not paid (B1).
NGR to centre of Aylesbury.
Conservation Area designated on 10th March 1969 and amended in 1988 and 2004. See appraisal (B5).
Historic towns characterisation project carried out in 2009. See report for detail (B6).
Aylesbury occupies a prominent position on a hill at the junction of Akeman Street with the main road from Thame to Buckingham. It is the natural centre for a great part of the county and doubtless owes its growth to this fact. Although Buckingham was the county town and certainly took the place of county town in the Domesday Survey, it was early found that the natural position of Aylesbury made it by far the more suitable meeting place. Consequently assizes were held at Aylesbury from 1218 onwards and probably before that year. The gaol for the county and forest of Bernwood was also kept here at least from 1180. Aylesbury was no chartered borough until it was incorporated in January 1553-4. Previous to that date it had certain features which distinguish it from the ordinary township or manor; but these were possibly extensions of the privileges enjoyed by tenants on ancient demesne of the crown. There are no traces of burgage tenure, at all events under that name, either in the Domesday Survey or in subsequent extents of the manor. [Further detail] (B9).
In 1086 no mention of a market, but a toll of £10. In 1204 Aylesbury manor was granted by King John to Geoffrey, Earl of Essex. In 1227 represented as a borough and vill by its own jury at the eyre of 1307, 1322, and 1332. Taxed at the urban rate as a borough; as a vill in 1315, 1316, 1319, 1334, and 1336 (B10).