Domesday Book (/ˈduːmzdeɪ/ DOOMZ-day; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and...
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demonstrated by its many appearances in the Domesday Book of 1086. Places described as being In Craven in the Domesday Book fell later within the modern county...
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Commission's ESPRIT programme) to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th-century census of England. It has been cited as an example...
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Look up Domesday Book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Domesday Book is a record of the great survey of England completed in 1086. Domesday Book may also...
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Domesday refers to the Domesday Book, a survey of the land conquered by the Normans in 1066. Domesday may also refer to: Exon Domesday, the Domesday of...
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records may have been exaggerated or misinterpreted. Records from the Domesday Book of 1086 suggest that as much as 75% of the population could have died...
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William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. At the time of Domesday Book in 1086 he held extensive lands in 13 counties, including the Rape of...
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In the 1860s the first facsimile of Domesday Book was created by the process of photozincography (later termed zinco), and was executed under the directorship...
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West Derby Hundred (section Domesday Book)
Borough, Wigan borough, Warrington Borough and Halton Borough. When the Domesday Book was compiled, this hundred was composed of three separate hundreds of...
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dispossessed by the new king, William of Normandy. Great Kimble (Chenebelle in Domesday Book) was given to Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville in Normandy, who received...
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Welton, Northamptonshire (section The Domesday Book)
the parish prompted a Roman encampment. Welton has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086 where its population, land ownership and productive resources...
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The text of Domesday Book, the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086 executed for William I of England, was first edited by Abraham...
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Iffley (section Domesday Book entry)
chronicles of Abingdon Abbey (941 – 946) the place is called Gifteleia. The Domesday Book of 1086 it is Givetelei. Merton College records in the 1290s call it...
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Little Bookham (section Domesday Book record)
Little Bookham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Bocheham. It was held by Halsard from William de Braiose. Its Domesday Assets were: 2 hides; 2 ploughs...
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Hanging Houghton (section The Domesday Book)
referenced as a settlement in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was recorded as having a population of 30 households. The book recorded the households, owners...
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Norton, Northamptonshire (section The Domesday Book)
Wales and thus offered easy passage to Ireland. Norton appears in the Domesday Book and some of the people mentioned in its entry are as follows: Aghmund;...
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the Domesday Book is misleading in this respect. George, David (1991). Lancashire. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-2862-4. Domesday Book...
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History of salt (redirect from Domesday Wiches)
ISBN 9789356087347. OCLC 3728495 – via Project Gutenberg. "Domesday Book". Domesday Book. Archived from the original on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2012-02-13...
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Martock (section Domesday book)
4,766 and was historically a market town. Martock was known in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Mertoch. It means 'Rising bright from the shining sea' from...
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(III), the heir in Normandy, and Earl William. Landholdings in the Domesday Book of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey Aylmerton, County of Norfolk...
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castles commanding military strong points throughout the land. The Domesday Book, a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts...
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Awards, and was shortlisted for other awards. The title of the book refers to the Domesday Book of 1086. Kivrin Engle, the main character, says that her recording...
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BBC Domesday Project in which a survey of the nation was compiled 900 years after the Domesday Book was published. While the original Domesday Book of...
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Oxfordshire Judith held eight manors in her own name - i.e. manors which the Domesday Book of 1086 shows were not let, by her, to local lords. Those eight manors...
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The Domesday Book of 1086 AD identifies King William the Conqueror's tenants-in-chief for historic Lancashire within Cestrescire (Cheshire) and Eurvicscire...
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Hixon, Staffordshire (section The Domesday Book)
Huchtesdona in 1130, Huhtesdon and Huytesdon. Hixon is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. In the survey the village has the name Hustedone. and was described...
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north-east of the county. Lancashire was founded in the 12th century; in the Domesday Book of 1086 much of what would become the county is treated as part of Yorkshire...
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The Domesday Book of 1086 AD lists (in the following order) King William the Conqueror's tenants-in-chief in Snotinghscire (Nottinghamshire), following...
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had a church, a mill, and around 365 inhabitants, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Croydon expanded in the Middle Ages as a market town and a...
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Finedon (section Domesday Book)
England, with a population at the 2021 census of 4,552. In 1086 when the Domesday Book was completed, Finedon (then known as Tingdene) was a large royal manor...
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