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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    weirs). Ludford, Steventon, and the Sheet are all mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as manors. They existed prior to the town of Ludlow, which grew...
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