• 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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    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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    facsimile of Domesday Book was created by the process of photozincography (later termed zinco), and was executed under the directorship of Henry James...
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    his literary contemporaries; and as one of the agents behind the first complete publication of Domesday Book in 1783. He was born in Islington, London...
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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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    of Domesday Book, published in 1783. Nichols regarded the design as among his greatest achievements, stating that "on the correctness and beauty of this...
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  • Britain since the Domesday Book of 1086, thus the 1873 Return is sometimes called the "Modern Domesday", and in Ireland since the Down Survey of 1655-1656. It...
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  • set of indexes to the edition of Domesday Book edited by Abraham Farley and published by the government in 1783. See Publication of Domesday Book.) Illingworth...
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  • English government official who was the custodian of Domesday Book. Farley was appointed Deputy Chamberlain of the Exchequer in 1736 and became responsible...
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  • awards. The title of the book refers to the Domesday Book of 1086. Kivrin Engle, the main character, says that her recording is "a record of life in the Middle...
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  • 1783 in Great Britain (category Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain)
    Publication of Domesday Book: The text of the Domesday Book (1086) is first published in print, under the editorship of Abraham Farley. The Countess of Huntingdon's...
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  • parts of what was to become Lancashire being at that time part of Cheshire. This area is included as "Inter Ripam et Mersam" in the Domesday Book. However...
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    Wetwang (category OpenDomesday)
    was worth £4 per year in rent. The village is mentioned twice in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wetuuangha. The lesser mention simply records its existence:...
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  • Stephen Baxter (historian) (category Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford)
    specialises in lordship in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England, and the Domesday Book. Born in 1969, Baxter completed his undergraduate degree in modern history...
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  • revised, and then self-published in the newsletter of the Castle & Crusade Society, The Domesday Book, as the "LGTSA Miniatures Rules", in issue #5 (July...
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    Leyland Hundred (category Hundreds of Lancashire)
    Hoole, Leyland, Penwortham, Rufford, Standish and Tarleton. In the Domesday Book the area was recorded as 'Lailand' Hundred, with Chorley Parish in Warmundestrou...
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    Serjeanty (category Society of England)
    composition with the Crown. Some of the Domesday Book tenants may have been serjeants before the Norman Conquest, in the time of King Edward the Confessor....
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    the majority of articles being accessible through an interactive map of the UK. The user interface and part of the content of the Domesday Project were...
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    parish and the administrative centre of the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book, where it is called Hamelesham....
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    Blackburn Hundred (category Hundreds of Lancashire)
    shire probably originated as a county of the Kingdom of Northumbria, but was much fought over. In the Domesday Book it was among the hundreds between the...
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    huge county of Yorkshire was a successor to the Viking kingdom of York and the Brittonic kingdom of Elmet; at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 it...
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    London. The town is of Saxon origin, although it is not listed in Domesday Book of 1086. Train services to Frimley (on the line between Ascot and Aldershot)...
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    Making and Limitations of the Yorkshire Domesday, Issue 41 (Borthwick Publications, 1972 ) p. 30. Domesday People: Domesday book (Boydell & Brewer Ltd...
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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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  • Editors' Association of Canada uses the periods and the comma; so does A Canadian Writer's Reference. The government publication The Canadian Style uses...
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    J. Horace Round (category Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford)
    genealogist of the English medieval period. He translated the portion of Domesday Book (1086) covering Essex into English. As an expert in the history of the...
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    Cotter (farmer) (category History of agriculture)
    recorded in the Domesday Book, a social class whose exact status has been the subject of some discussion among historians, and is still a matter of doubt. According...
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    Ashford-in-the-Water (category OpenDomesday)
    in the Domesday Book of 1086 it was Aisseford. The addition of "in-the-Water" occurred in the late 17th century, and reflected the proximity of the village...
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    Cheshire (redirect from County of Chester)
    became part of North Wales. At the time of the Domesday Book, it also included as part of Duddestan Hundred the area of land later known as English Maelor...
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    in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde with a recorded population of 33 households and land belonging to Eskil (of Ware)...
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