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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Castle & Crusade Society's fanzine The Domesday Book.: 6  The C&CS published a newsletter called the Domesday Book. Its first issue is dated March 1, 1970;...
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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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    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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    centre of the historic estate. North Radworthy is mentioned in the Domesday Book, alongside the neighbouring hamlet of South Radworthy. They both sit...
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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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    Conquest of 1066 by the Norman warrior Drogo de Montagud (so named in the Domesday Book). They rose to their highest power and prominence in the 14th and 15th...
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    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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  • ownership in Great Britain since the Domesday Book of 1086, thus the 1873 Return is sometimes called the "Modern Domesday", and in Ireland since the Down Survey...
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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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  • several estates split-off from the single manor of Hele, listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the 47th of the 79 Devonshire holdings of Robert, Count of...
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    Archenfield. Serjeants (servientes) already appear as a distinct class in the Domesday Book of 1086, though not in all cases differentiated from the barons, who...
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    of the settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Fiseborne. Fishbourne is listed the Domesday Book of 1086 in the Hundred of Stockbridge...
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    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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    Harold Godwinson were too slim to justify disturbing a burial place. The Domesday Book of 1086 lists Bosham as one of the wealthiest manors in England. It...
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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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  • Norman Conquest of England, the hidage assessments were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and there was a tendency for land producing £1 of income per...
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    formed the feudal barony of Plympton were formerly held by two Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror (1066–1087): Robert d'Aumale...
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    appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wiselei. It was held by Osuuold (Oswold) [of Wotton], whose main seat was Wotton. Its domesday assets were: 11⁄2...
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    quintessence of an ancient English Manor House". It is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as two separate holdings, both spelled Harestane, the 29th and...
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  • Society, The Domesday Book, as the "LGTSA Miniatures Rules", in issue #5 (July 1970), using 1:10 figure scale. Later issues of The Domesday Book introduce...
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