Essire Shere appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Essira and Essire in the ancient hundred of Blackheath. It was held by William the Conqueror. Its Domesday assets were: 1 church, 2 mills worth 10s per year, 14 ploughs, 3 acres (1.2 ha) of meadow, woodland worth 50 hogs. It rendered £15 per year