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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.
Today, Domesday Book is available in numerous editions, usually separated by county and available with other local history resources. 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. In August 2006, the contents of Domesday went online ...
Generate by script, or manually, an infobox for each Wikipedia page, with the Domesday statistics and image. Standardised external link template Done: {{OpenDomesday}} Transcribe Domesday Book scans on Latin Wikisource (e.g. la:s:Liber:Domesday Book Bedfordshire.djvu). Translate Latin text into English on English Wikisource.
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
* {{OpenDomesday|OS=SP0791|name=perry|display=Perry}} which will render as: Perry in the Domesday Book; Perry in the Domesday Book; respectively. Optionally for use in references |accessdate= is available to add an access date. * {{OpenDomesday|SP0791|perry|Perry|accessdate=2 January 2012}} which will render as: Perry in the Domesday Book ...
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 ...
The Liber Exoniensis or Exon Domesday is the oldest of the three manuscripts originating with the Domesday Survey of 1086, covering south-west England. It contains a variety of administrative materials concerning the counties of Cornwall , Devon , Dorset , Somerset and Wiltshire .
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