Before the Conquest Suckley manor was part of Earl Eadwine's great manor of Bromsgrove. After the Conquest, William Fitz Osbern, Earl of Hereford, took five hides out of Bromsgrove to form part of his farm at Hereford; at Domesday Suckley was therefore surveyed under Herefordshire. William gave the church of Suckley to the abbey he had founded at Cormeilles. The endowment was confirmed by the crown in 1074, the date at which the Earl's lands were forfeited by his son Roger. In 1086 Suckley was in the hands of the king, and remained a royal manor until 1215.