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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 website provided online access to images and articles from the original Domesday Project. Visitors were able to update information from their local area [ 15 ] until the end of October 2011. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Some local libraries hosted events for residents to contribute updates to the 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.
A version of one of the discs was created that runs on a Windows PC. This version was reverse-engineered from an original Domesday Community disc and incorporates images from the videotape masters. It was initially available only via a terminal at the National Archives headquarters in Kew, but was published on the web as Domesday 1986 (at ...
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.
Ernulf de Hesdin (died 1097), also transcribed as Arnulf and Ernulphe, was a French knight who took part in the Norman conquest of England and became a major landholder under William the Conqueror and William Rufus, featuring prominently in the Domesday Book.
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 ...
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