Domesday Book records the Whiteley area

1086

The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded the lands around what is now Whiteley as part of the wider manor system in the Titchfield and Fareham area of Hampshire. The area was agricultural, with scattered farms, woodland and open fields worked by the local population under the feudal system. The landscape that would eventually become Whiteley was characterised by heavy clay soils, patches of oak and hazel woodland and small watercourses draining into the Hamble estuary to the west. This rural character would persist for nearly nine centuries before the modern development began.