Click on a county name on the map to continue, or use the list of links below it. Leicestershire, northamptonshire, oxfordshire, staffordshire, warwickshire. Domesday book provides a vast amount of information for those who want to build up a picture of life in england under the normans. It also records that 650,000 oxen ploughed englands fields. It was moved to westminster and then to the national archives at kew. Domesday book was known as the book of winchester when it was housed in the royal treasury at winchester. Book, find population and tax records, and see the original domesday folios free online. For wales, only parts of certain border areas are included.
The domesday book provides extensive records of landholders, their tenants, the amount of land they owned, how many people occupied the land villagers, smallholders, free men, slaves, etc. Domesday book is a manuscript record of the great survey of much of england and parts of. Uploaded by the open domesday project, released under ccbysa by professor john palmer and george slater. This page simply lists all places mentioned in domesday book. Though invariably called domesday book, in the singular, it in fact consists of two volumes quite different from each other. There are some 418 towns and villages recorded in the domesday book, covering 40 of the old counties of england. The domesday book is actually not one book but two. The majority of these still exist in some form today. Watermills were the most economically important machines in 11th. Volume i great domesday contains the final summarized record of all the counties surveyed except essex, norfolk, and suffolk.
The domesday book online frequently asked questions. The placenames found in the domesday book are township and estate names, and may include other villages and hamlets that receive no specific mention in the text. The domesday book online contents of the domesday book. Focus on domesday the national archives learning curve. The domesday book does not cover certain important cities, such as london, winchester, bristol and the borough of tamworth. Geograph images of places mentioned in the domesday book. Domesday book covers all of england except the northern areas.
About 90 per cent of places on the modern map of england south of the tees are recorded in domesday book. For these three counties the full, unabbreviated return sent in to winchester by the commissioners is preserved in the second volume little domesday, which, for some reason, was never summarized and added to the larger volume. One of the most important historical events of the medieval era is the domesday book. Domesday book is the product of an extraordinary survey of england commissioned by king william the conqueror in 1085. Domesday places domesday landowners what information is in the domesday. The national archives is the home of domesday book, the oldest surviving public record. Find places mentioned in domesday on the interactive map. The domesday book is a record of an enormous survey carried out in england for king william i the conqueror, and it was completed in the year 1086.
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