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.

Its existence was first recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book.

Before the Norman invasion in 1066, the parish of Higher Mutley was owned by a man Alwin of Tamerton, and Lower Mutley by another man called Goodwin, but at the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) both were owned by Odo, whose feudal overlord was Juhel of Totnes.

Likewise, The Nags Head, Burntwood only dates back to the 16th century, but there has been a pub on the site since at least 1086, as it is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

In Domesday ( 1086 ) the city of York was divided into shires.

At the time of the Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, nearly 10 % of the English population were slaves.

In the extreme south of the Lizard was the royal manor of Winnianton which was held by King William I at the time of Domesday Book ( 1086 ) and was also the head manor of the hundred of Kerrier.

A cognate name also existed in Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), in the name of the village Woolland in Dorset, England: this was written " Winlande " in the 1086 Domesday Book, and it is interpreted as ' meadow land ' or ' pasture land '.

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

* 1086: compilation of the Domesday Book by order of William I of England ; it was similar to a modern day government census, as it was used by William to thoroughly document all the landholdings within the kingdom that could be properly taxed.

* 1086 – The Domesday Book is initiated by William I of England.

* 1274 – The first main survey of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun ; it lasts until 1275.

* 1279 – The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun ; it lasts until 1280.

* 1280 – The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is completed ; it began in 1279.

This allowed for the creation of a monastery or minstre in the area, and the earliest written form of the name Kidderminster ( Chedeminstre ) was not seen until it appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086.

* The first main survey of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is finished ; it began in 1274.

* The first main survey of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun ; it lasts until 1275.

* 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.

According to the Domesday survey, Kilpeck had ' 3 ploughs, 2 serfs and 4 oxmen and there are 57 men with 19 ploughs.

The town is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham ; the letter ' R ' appears to have entered the name later under Norman influence ( possibly caused by the recording of local pronunciation.

The second division is formed by the convention between the English and the Welsh Dunsaetas, the law of the Northumbrian priests, the customs of the North people, the fragments of local custumals entered in Domesday Book.

Northumberland county is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but the account of the issues of the county, as rendered by Odard the sheriff, is entered in the Great Roll of the Exchequer for 1131.

In the Domesday Book, Chillington ( Cillintone ) is entered under Warwickshire as forming part of the estates of William FitzCorbucion, and it was the latter's grandson, known as Peter Corbesun of Studley, who granted Chillington to Peter Giffard, his wife's nephew, for a sum of 25 marks and a charger of metal.

About 10 % of England ’ s population entered in the Domesday Book in 1086 were slaves.

Serjeants ( servientes ) are already entered as a distinct class in Domesday Book ( 1086 ), though not in all cases differentiated from the barons, who held by knight-service.