History of Staines-upon-Thames in the historic county of Middlesex and Surrey County Council, England * 3000 BC — Neolithic settlement at Yeoveney Manor Farm by Staines Moor * 43 — First Staines Bridge built by the Roman Empire * 1009 — Sweyn Forkbeard's Danish army, which had been harrying (plundering) the Upper Thames valley, is said to have crossed the river at Staines to avoid an English force assembling in London. Middlesex marks the southern reach of the Danelaw. * 1086 — Domesday Book is the first economic survey of England: Staines appears on its Middlesex map and listing as Stanes, held by Westminster Abbey, having 24 hides of arable land, 6 mills assessed at £3 4s 0d, 2 weirs remitting 6s 8d, meadow of 24 ploughlands, and unspecified cattle, it rendered £35 to its overlords.