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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 ...
Alspath (early spelling Ailespede) [1] is first recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book and was the ancient name of the original settlement in what is known today as the parish of Meriden, West Midlands (originally Warwickshire) situated between Birmingham and Coventry. The name means "Aelles path across the heath". [1] [2] [3] Alspath was held in ...
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 name "Domesday Book" came into use in the 12th century. [4] Richard FitzNeal wrote in the Dialogus de Scaccario (c. 1179) that the book was so called because its decisions were unalterable, like those of the Last Judgment, and its sentence could not be quashed. [5] The manuscript is held at
The House of Montagu (/ ˈ m ɒ n t ə ɡ juː /, MON-tə-ghew), also known throughout history as Montagud, Montaigu, Montague, Montacute (Latin: de Monte Acuto, lit. 'from the sharp mountain'; French: Mont Aigu), is an English noble family founded in Somerset after the Norman Conquest of 1066 by the Norman warrior Drogo de Montagud [1] (so named in the Domesday Book).
The place-name 'Rudston' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, and means 'rood' or 'cross' stone, referring to the monolith. [5] However, the name 'rud' derives from Old Norse ruð, meaning a clearing or pasture. So the place name could be stone in the clearing, Ruðstane.
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.
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.