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Domesday has been converted to modern, structured data. The "Hull" Domesday dataset was created by Professor John Palmer and a team at the University of Hull - it contains geocoded database entries for around 13,000 places mentioned in Domesday Book, with population and other statistics. I have put the dataset online at my Open Domesday site.
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.
Bondi the Staller, also known as 'Boding', was a wealthy Anglo-Danish landowner, thegn, and member of Edward the Confessor's personal household. [2]His family were of Danish origin and held extensive estates in Wessex, as well as Perivale and Northolt in North-West London.
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.
Abbots Ripton was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the Hundred of Hurstingstone in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Riptune. [3] In 1086 there was just one manor at Abbots Ripton; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £8 and the rent was the same in 1086. [4]
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 ...
South Lancashire (Inter Ripam et Mersam) in the Domesday Book The Domesday Book of 1086 AD identifies King William the Conqueror 's tenants-in-chief for historic Lancashire within Cestrescire ( Cheshire ) and Eurvicscire ( Yorkshire ). [ 1 ]
Eadnoth the Constable (died 1068) [1] also known as Eadnoth the Staller, was an Anglo-Saxon landowner and steward to kings Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson.He is mentioned in the Domesday Book as holding thirty manors in Devon, Dorset, Somerset, and Wiltshire, before the Norman conquest. [2]