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Domesday Book was compiled in AD 1086 for William the Conqueror. It records the number of households, the economic resources, who owned the land, and the tax paid to the king, for almost every settlement in England. This map shows every place in Domesday that can still be located today. Learn more ».
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Brighton - Map | Domesday Book
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Cottenham - Map | Domesday Book
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Kensington - Map | Domesday Book
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Maps and site by Anna Powell-Smith. Domesday data created by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The first online copy of Domesday Book of 1086: search for your town or village in Domesday Book, find population and tax records, and see the original Domesday folios free online.
This page simply lists all places mentioned in Domesday Book. You may prefer to use the map.
The original Domesday Book is deemed too valuable and fragile to be exhibited in public and so is kept in private at the National Archives - formerly the Public Records Office - in Kew, London (though it is still used on occasions by students and academics interested in its study).
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 ...
Jan 8, 2021 · Domesday Book is the most complete survey of a pre-industrial society anywhere in the world. It enables us to reconstruct the politics, government, society and economy of 11th-century England with greater precision than is possible for almost any other pre-modern polity.
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The Domesday Book does not cover certain important cities, such as London, Winchester, Bristol and the borough of Tamworth; nor Northumberland and Durham or much of north-west England.
