Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

The lands of the Bletchley Park estate were formerly part of the Manor of Eaton, included in the Domesday Book in 1086.

Bodmin is one of the oldest towns in Cornwall, and the only large Cornish settlement recorded in the Domesday Book of the late 11th century.

Also, during World War I the prison held some of Britain's priceless national treasures including the Domesday Book, the ring and the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

Category: Places in Cornwall listed in the Domesday Book

In the late 800s, Alfred the Great assembled the Doom book ( not to be confused with the more-famous Domesday Book from 200 years later ), which collected the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, and attempted to blend in the Mosaic code, Christian principles, and Germanic customs dating as far as the fifth century.

Cheddar was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ceder, meaning " Shear Water ", from the Old English scear and Celtic dwr.

The Domesday Book was undertaken in 1086 by William I of England so that he could properly tax the land he had recently conquered in medieval Europe.

The Domesday Book of 1086 in England contained listings of households but its coverage was not complete and its intent was not the same as modern censuses.

* BBC Domesday Project, a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, 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.

Emsworth was not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

To make this system of royal criminal justice more effective, Henry employed the method of inquest used by William the Conqueror in the Domesday Book.

William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey of the entire population and their lands and property for tax purposes, which reveals that within twenty years of the conquest the English ruling class had been almost entirely dispossessed and replaced by Norman landholders, who also monopolised all senior positions in the government and the Church.

That " New Burgh " was founded in 1069, and is mentioned in the Domesday Book as such.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.

Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Salt production was an industry on the island from the 11th century ( the Domesday Book records a saltpan on the island for this purpose ) until the late 19th century.

Around 500 people lived in the town in 1086 ( at the time of the Domesday Book ).

Hatfield is mentioned in the Domesday Book as the property of the Abbey of Ely, and unusually, the original census data which compilers of Domesday used still survives, giving us slightly more information than got into the final Domesday record.

The Domesday Book recorded the county as having nine hundreds.

The king granted to this son of his the feudal barony of Bradninch, Devon, which had escheated to the crown from William Capra, listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding that barony.

Historians in the " Whiggish " tradition, focusing on documents such as the Domesday Book and Magna Carta, trace a progressive and universalist course of political and economic development in England over the medieval period.

* Domesday Book Online lists Burnham, Burnham Deepdale, Burham Overy and Burnham Thorpe

" Another medieval chronicler, Orderic Vitalis, said that Ranulf planned to revise the survey of England, almost certainly Domesday Book, and that he planned to use that revised survey to confiscate all excess holdings over a certain amount.

A diplomatic edition is to be distinguished both from a facsimile edition, which, in the modern era, normally employs photographic or digital images ; and from a type facsimile ( such as Abraham Farley's edition of Domesday Book ), which seeks to reproduce the appearance of the original through the use of a special typeface.

The Domesday Book notes the use of a cucking stool at Chester, a seat also known as cathedra stercoris, a " dung chair ", whose punishment apparently involved exposing the sitter's buttocks to onlookers.

Its place name reflects its position-first recorded in the Domesday book of 1086 as ' Contone ', from Old English cumb-a narrow valley or deep hollow (' cumb ' is likely a continuation in use or a loan word from Brythonic cwm ( Welsh ) or cum ( Cornish ), meaning ' valley '), and Old English tūn-a farmstead or fenced place.

It is mentioned in Domesday Book as being in use at Chester, being called cathedra stercoris, a name which seems to confirm the first of the derivations suggested in the footnote below.

Late Victorian historians continued to use the chroniclers as sources, but also deployed documents such as Domesday Book and Magna Carta, alongside newly discovered financial, legal and commercial records.

The word appeared in the Middle Ages as a variant on the older and coexisting form of Birmingham ( spelled Bermingeham in the Domesday Book ) and was in widespread use by the time of the Civil War.

The Dialogue also states that the Pipe rolls, along with Domesday Book and other records, were kept in the treasury, because they were required for daily use by the Exchequer clerks.

After the Norman Conquest of England hidage assessments were recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 and the Norman kings continued to use them ( with amendments ) for tax assessments until the end of the 12th century.

In 1086 William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey listing all the landholders in England along with their holdings.

* A survey of royal privileges is conducted, which is included in the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086 ; the Hundred Rolls is later completed with two larger surveys in 1274 / 1275 and 1279 / 1280.

Richard FitzNigel, writing around the year 1179, stated that the book was known by the English as " Domesday ", that is the Day of Judgment " for as the sentence of that strict and terrible last account cannot be evaded by any skilful subterfuge, so when this book is appealed to ... its sentence cannot be put quashed or set aside with impunity.

Today, Domesday Book is available in numerous editions, usually separated by county and available with other local history resources.

In August 2006 the contents of Domesday went online, with an English translation of the book's Latin.

* Commercial site with extracts from Domesday Book Domesday Book entries including translations for each settlement.

The Domesday Book, compiled that year, records only two estates in Hertfordshire with a total value of £ 10 p. a.

Wells was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Welle, from the Old English wiells, which was not listed as a town, but included four manors with a population of 132, which implies a population of 500 – 600.

In the Domesday Book, two manors are mentioned, linked with the names Godric and Osward.

Its Domesday assets were: 8 hides, paying tax with Mortlake ; 5 ploughs, of meadow.

It was already a substantial settlement with a church when mentioned in the Domesday Book, and was the parish church for a large area including Dulwich and Peckham.

It is also thought that similarly to how Kingston upon Thames appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Chingestone and Chingetun ( e ), with ching being old English for king, that Chingford could relate to the King's river, and Kings Ford.

It was listed in the Domesday Book as comprising enough arable land for five ploughs, with meadow land only sufficient for one plough.

The Domesday Book describes the land as being predominantly flat and composed of London clay with the exception of alluvium along the banks of the River Pinn.

The Domesday Book of 1086 lists Mitcham as a small farming community, with 250 people living in two hamlets ; Mitcham, an area known today as Upper Mitcham ; and Whitford, today known as the Lower Green area.

Enfield was recorded in Domesday Book in 1086 as Enefelde, and as Einefeld in 1214, Enfeld in 1293, and Enfild in 1564: that is ' open land of a man called Ēana ', or ' where lambs are reared ', from the Old English feld with an Old English personal name or with Old English ēan ' lamb '.

Its Domesday assets were 12 hides, with 5½ ploughs and of meadow.

Domesday Book shows that a man named Hereward held lands in the parishes of Witham on the Hill and Barholm with Stow in the south-western corner of Lincolnshire as a tenant of Peterborough Abbey ; prior to his exile, Hereward had also held lands as a tenant of Croyland Abbey at Crowland, eight miles east of Market Deeping in the neighbouring fenland.

In the Domesday Book three lords were associated with Swaffham: Walter Giffard, with the largest manor ; his tenant Hugh Bolebec, who held all of the Giffard land there ; and Aubrey de Vere I, who held a smaller manor at Swaffham which the Domesday jurors said Aubrey had seized without the king's permission.