 Washingley was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Normancross in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as "Wasingelei" and "Wasingeleia" in the Domesday Book.In 1086 there were two manors at Washingley; the annual rent paid to the lords of the manors in 1066 had been £3 and the rent was the same in 1086.The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 22 households at Washingley.