 The Tattersett name derives from the old English name of Tatessete, which means "Tathere’s dwelling".The village is mentioned in the Domesday book as a village called Tatessete in the ancient hundred of Brothercross, and is said to be the land of one William of Warenne.The boundaries of the hundreds of Norfolk at the time of the Domesday Survey of 1086 remained largely unchanged, and were anciently divided into leets of which no trace remains.