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Halnaker is mentioned in the Domesday Book under the Hundred of Boxgrove, Sussex, as having 44 households [2] in the lands belonging to Earl Roger. [3] The book which was written in 1086 said: The same William holds Halnaker of the Earl. Alweard held it TRE [4] and then as now it was assessed at nine hildes. There is land for five ploughs.
Add the folios of Domesday Book to Wikisource (currently on the Internet Archive). If possible, use Wikisource to crowdsource a freely available English translation of Domesday Book - this would be an immensely valuable resource, as there is currently no freely available translation, and entries based on statistics alone can be a little ...
Domesday Book was an item of great interest to the antiquarian movement of the 18th century. This was the age of the county history, with many accounts of the English shires being published at this time, and Domesday Book, as a property record of early date that happened to be arranged by county, was a major source for the medieval history of all the counties encompassed by the survey.
"The Domesday Book records over 200 manors given to Henry de Ferrers" Henry de Ferrers (died by 1100), magnate and administrator, was a Norman who after the 1066 Norman conquest was awarded extensive lands in England.
Domesday Book encompasses two independent works (originally in two physical volumes): "Little Domesday" (covering Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex), and "Great Domesday" (covering much of the remainder of England – except for lands in the north that later became Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, and the County Palatine of Durham – and parts of Wales bordering and included within English ...
The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands. In different parts of the country, these were terms for the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plough in a single season and are equivalent to 120 acres (49 hectares); this was the amount of land that was ...
Diddington was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Toseland in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Dodinctun and Dodintone in the Domesday Book. [4] In 1086 there were two manors at Diddington; the annual rent paid to the lords of the manors in 1066 had been £5 and the rent had increased to £6.5 in 1086. [5]
Loddiswell was mentioned in the Domesday book in 1086 when the manor was valued at 100 shillings. The manor then belonged to Juhel of Totnes, but had belonged to an Anglo Saxon called Heca before the Norman Conquest. Domesday recorded that there was a fishery that gave 30 salmon as geld. [4]