The Youngs had farmed in Singleborough, Bucks County for generations. They were tenant farmers who rented farmland from a landowner. Singleborough is a Hamlet within the Parish of Great Horwood. Great Horwood is a village and a parish in Winslow district, Bucks (Buckinghamshire). The village stands 2½ miles NE by N of Winslow. Winslow was once a market town. The parish also includes the hamlet of Singleborough and comprises 3,109 acres.
Singleborough was a settlement in the Domesday Book in the hundred of Mursley Singleborough had a recorded population of 12 households in 1086. Mursley was once a more important village and was designated as a market town by virtue of a royal charter granted in 1230. Hundreds (the origin of this name is obscure) were the main administrative subdivisions of a county, with a significant role in financial, military, judicial, and political matters centred upon the Hundred court, which met monthly. Counties were the primary structural element of the Domesday Book. There were 31 counties in Great Domesday. Each county was divided into fiefs, each fief into Hundreds, each Hundred into vills, and each vill into manors.
