Domesday Records
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles later known as the Domesday Book is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales, completed in 1086 by order of the Norman king, William the Conqueror. Deanshanger is not mentioned but Passenham and Puxley are listed:
Passenham: The King holds Passenham (BASSONHÁ) 1 hide. land for 12 ploughs. In lordship 1, with 1 slave; 8 villagers and 6 smallholders with 1 free man who have 5 ploughs. A mill at 13s 4d; meadow, 30 acres; woodland 1 league long and as wide.
Puxley: (POCHĖSLEI) belongs to this manor. ½ hide. Land for 1 plough. 1 Freeman who has ½ plough and pays 5s. The whole paid £8 at face value before 1066; now £10.
Two manor houses are recorded in Domesday, one with 29 messuages and large arable fields the other comprised of 2 messuages, 80 acres of land, a dovecot, and a horse-mill out of repair.
The old Parish of Passenham no longer exists, having been replaced in 1948 by the two civic areas of Deanshanger and Old Stratford; it originally included Passenham, Old Stratford, Deanshanger, Puxley, the hamlets of Little London and Holywell and over 1000 acres of Whittlewood Forest.