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Domesday Book (/ ˈ d uː m z d eɪ / DOOMZ-day; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror. [1]
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.
Darby, Henry C. (1977) Domesday England (Cambridge University Press) ISBN 0-521-31026-1 Maitland, F. W. (1988) Domesday Book and Beyond (Cambridge University Press) ISBN 0-521-34918-4 Roffe, David (2000) Domesday: The Inquest and The Book (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-19-820847-2
The two-volume Return of Owners of Land, 1873 is a survey of land ownership in the United Kingdom.It was the first complete picture of the distribution of land ownership in Great Britain [1] since the Domesday Book of 1086, thus the 1873 Return is sometimes called the "Modern Domesday", [2] and in Ireland since the Down Survey of 1655-1656.
Over is an ancient borough, mentioned in the Domesday Book, now a part of Winsford in the Cheshire West and Chester district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Wharton forms the eastern part, the boundary being the River Weaver. It is said to have retained its borough status and to be the smallest borough in England. [1]
Hensall can trace its roots back at least as far as the 1086 Domesday Book, in which it is listed as Edeshale. [2] The name of Edeshale is said to derive from Aedan's, or Edan's, Nook of land.
1986 Domesday Book running on its original hardware. The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers, Philips, Logica, and the BBC (with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme) to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th-century census of England.
In 1086, at the time of the Domesday Book, the manor was held by Hugh de Beauchamp (sheriff). [3] The stayed in Acard's family until his descendant, Reginald de Ivri granted a lease to Falkes de Breauté. On confiscation of Falkes's estates in 1225, King Henry III granted the rest of the lease to Henry de Capella.