A pre-Conquest church, St Saviour's was among those mentioned in the Domesday Survey or in other contemporary documents. |
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A church of this name is mentioned in Domesday in a way that implies pre-Conquest existence. |
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It appears that the burgesses as a group were responsible for payment of the Domesday custom and for later tallages and aids. |
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The circuit returns were then sent to the Exchequer in Winchester where they were summarized, edited and compiled into Great Domesday Book. |
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Compiling Domesday Book was a huge endeavour, which entered the folk memory because almost everyone was involved. |
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In 1272 the town clerk, avoiding imminent charges for dereliction of duty, made off with the original Domesday and other borough records. |
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Thanks to the patient detective work of some great medievalists, we know a lot about the Domesday Book. |
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Other candidates include the ship burial at Sutton Hoo, the Lindisfarne Gospels, Magna Carta, the Domesday Book and the Isle of Lewis chessmen. |
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There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output. |
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In 1068 the Domesday Book recorded a population of 650 people, including 28 slaves, 45 smallholders and 23 swineherds. |
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The class of small thegns had broadened into a rural squirearchy, and Domesday Book shows that in 1066 England contained hundreds of manorial lords. |
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It is likely that the original account was written as an introduction or appendix to the custumal in the Domesday and also to the list of gild ordinances. |
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Fisherton Mill was a corn mill since the time of the Domesday Book, working until 1965, and the corn exchange was where the city's library is today. |
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Little Domesday is a less magnificent affair, scrawled over about 900 pages of parchment by a variety of scribes, and peppered with corrections, deletions and insertions. |
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Economy Since Maldon's residents owned very little agricultural land at the time of Domesday, it does not seem that most townsmen earned a living from farming. |
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Little Domesday survives because the East Anglian material had not yet been incorporated when William died and all further work on the project was abandoned. |
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When the Domesday Book was compiled, Chichester consisted of 300 dwellings which held a population of 1,500 people. |
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In the Domesday Book the Lord of the Manor was the Abbot of Westminster Abbey. |
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Its customs were described in a separate section of the Domesday Book account of Herefordshire. |
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In King's Caple, the only part of Archenfield east of the Wye, Domesday lists the inhabitants as one Frenchman and five Welshmen. |
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In the Domesday Book of 1086, some of its lands were treated as part of Yorkshire. |
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Godiva's name occurs in charters and the Domesday survey, though the spelling varies. |
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Even so, it is possible that Thorold, who appears in the Domesday Book as sheriff of Lincolnshire, was her brother. |
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Windsor Castle is noted in the Domesday Book under the entry for Clewer, the neighbouring manor to Windsor. |
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Huddersfield was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Oderesfelt and Odresfeld. |
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Carlisle was part of Scotland by 1066 and thus was not recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book. |
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England conducted its first formal census when the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086 under William I for tax purposes. |
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In 1086, when the Domesday Book was compiled, England had a population of two million. |
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St Oswald's Church was first mentioned in the 1085 Domesday book and a tithe document in Shrewsbury the same year. |
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According to the Domesday Survey of 1086, the Norman Robert of Rhuddlan was nominally in command of the whole of northern Wales. |
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Flintshire today approximately resembles the boundaries of the Hundred of Atiscross as it existed at the time of the Domesday Book. |
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The earliest recorded settlements date from the time of the Domesday Book, listed as 'Wepre', part of the Hundred of Ati's Cross, Cheshire. |
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Brighton's earliest name was Bristelmestune, recorded in the Domesday Book. |
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At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Brighton was in the Rape of Lewes and the Hundred of Welesmere. |
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Although Penzance is not mentioned in the survey document the Domesday Book, it is likely that the area would have been included. |
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Kendal is listed in the Domesday Book as part of Yorkshire with the name Cherchebi. |
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Broughton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun held by Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria. |
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The Domesday catalogue showed that there were many successful mills and fisheries along the Trent. |
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Halifax is not mentioned in the Domesday Book, and evidence of the early settlement is indefinite. |
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Rochdale seems to be named from its position on the River Roch but is recorded as Recedham in the Domesday Book. |
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In the Domesday Book of 1086, it was written Wachefeld and also as Wachefelt. |
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The Domesday Book recorded two churches, one in Wakefield and one in Sandal Magna. |
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There is no mention in the Domesday Book of a settlement where the current town is. |
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There have been settlements in the area now comprising Southport since the Domesday Book, and some parts of the town have names of Viking origin. |
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The first real evidence of an early settlement here is in the Domesday Book, in which the area is called Otergimele. |
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Set in its own expansive grounds, it boasts a history back to the Domesday Book and is full of interesting pictures and furniture. |
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Okehampton was the caput of a large feudal barony, which at the time of the Domesday Book was held by Baldwin FitzGilbert. |
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Following the Norman conquest, Leicester was recorded by William's Domesday Book as Ledecestre. |
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Domesday Book is critical to understanding the period in which it was written. |
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The assessors' reckoning of a man's holdings and their values, as recorded in Domesday Book, was dispositive and without appeal. |
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The Domesday survey therefore recorded the names of the new holders of lands and the assessments on which their tax was to be paid. |
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The ancient Domesday chest, in which they were kept in the 17th and 18th centuries, is also preserved at Kew. |
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On this last occasion Great Domesday was divided into two physical volumes, and Little Domesday into three volumes. |
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Today, Domesday Book is available in numerous editions, usually separated by county and available with other local history resources. |
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In August 2006 the contents of Domesday went online, with an English translation of the book's Latin. |
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It was so dense that even the Domesday Book did not record some of its settlements. |
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At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Sussex had some of the highest population densities in England. |
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The Domesday Book records that by the 11th century, the unknown Rameslie in Sussex had 100 salt pans to extract salt from sea water. |
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The Domesday survey was an administrative catalogue of the landholdings of the kingdom, and was unique to medieval Europe. |
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In 1086 William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey listing all the landholders in England along with their holdings. |
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Domesday Book no doubt records the extent of English penetration into Wales. |
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The royal forest was granted a charter in the 13th century, however foresters who managed the area were identified in the Domesday Book. |
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The Domesday survey of 1086 revealed 110 households which were mainly rural. |
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Based on feudal law, the ceremony was once a common sight across the land and noted in the Domesday Book. |
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Neither village is mentioned in the Domesday Book, but East Teignmouth was granted a market by charter in 1253 and one for West Teignmouth followed a few years later. |
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The village appears in Domesday Book, suffered from the Black Death, witnessed Lollardy, the Reformation, the Civil Wars, enclosures, and expanded in the nineteenth century. |
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Buckfast probably existed before Buckfastleigh as it is mentioned in the Domesday Book and in 1018 a Benedictine Abbey was founded and endorsed by King Canute at Buckfast. |
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Hornsea is mentioned as a Manor, as Hornesse, in the Domesday Book. |
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The Lordship of Golcar is recorded in the Domesday Book as including half a carucate of taxable land and woodland pasture one league long and half a league wide. |
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At the time of Domesday Book in 1086, parts of the county were considered either to form part of Yorkshire or to be within the separate Kingdom of Strathclyde. |
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The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded the settlements of Hietun, Rosse and Hougenai, which are now the districts of Hawcoat, Roose and Walney respectively. |
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Millom is mentioned in the Domesday Book as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun which was held by Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria. |
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Despite this, the Domesday Book records Northantone as possessing 316 houses with a population of 2000 people, ranking between Warwick and Leicester in size. |
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The present name seems to have been a corruption of the medieval Latin and Norman forms of the name Salisbury, such as the Sarisburie that appeared in the Domesday Book. |
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There is also a museum, which displays key documents such as Domesday Book and has exhibitions on various topics using material from the collections. |
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In 2011, the Open Domesday site made the manuscript available online. |
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To make this system of royal criminal justice more effective, Henry employed the method of inquest used by William the Conqueror in the Domesday Book. |
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More problematic interpretations suggest that it could also have reached as far south as Rochdale in Greater Manchester, recorded in the Domesday Book as Recedham. |
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The county was recorded in the Domesday Book divided into 44 hundreds. |
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When the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, the forest covered perhaps a quarter of Nottinghamshire in woodland and heath subject to the forest laws. |
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Many details of Thames activity are recorded in the Domesday Book. |
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In 1986, the BBC released the BBC Domesday Project, the results of a project to create a survey to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book. |
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Zhitomir was a neck behind Domesday last time out and he can go well off this mark judged on his 2006 form, but this trip may stretch his stamina. |
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