People have lived at Hodsock for over two thousand years and each generation has left its mark. Bronze Age, Roman and Saxon farmers began to shape the Hodsock landscape and evidence of their food and household rubbish is still being found in the gardens. In 1086 Hodsock was recorded in the Domesday Book and from then on there is a record of every owner of the estate. This line of the Domesday book states 'In Hodsock Wulfsi had 2 carucates of land taxable'. A carucate was 120 acres.