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.

Most recently, the two books were rebound for its ninth centenary in 1986, when Great Domesday was divided into two volumes and Little Domesday was divided into three volumes.

The reasons for the Odo commission theory include: 1 ) three of the bishop's followers mentioned in the Domesday Book appear on the tapestry ; 2 ) it was found in Bayeux Cathedral, built by Odo ; and 3 ) it may have been commissioned at the same time as the cathedral's construction in the 1070s, possibly completed by 1077 in time for display on the cathedral's dedication.

Its Domesday assets were: one church, three mills worth 15s 4d, 16 ploughs, of meadow, woodland and herbage for 88 hogs.

Crayford is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having a church and three mills, and a population of 27 villagers and 2 smallholders.

Ickenham appears in the Domesday Book three times under the name " Ticheham ".

The village of Acomb is mentioned three times in the Domesday Book as follow:

The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book, which states that in 1066 Ulfketill had six carucates of land taxable, where three ploughs were possible.

It is mentioned three times in the Domesday Book as Osboldewic.

Fetcham, therefore, was referenced in the Domesday survey as three manors ; one known as King's Manor was probably Fetcham Park ; another was given to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux after the Norman conquest.

Domesday Book records Bowden as a Royal Manor organised in three manors.

The Domesday Book in 1086 listed three mills, with a total fiscal value of 45 shillings, on the Bishop of Lincoln's demesne lands, and a fourth which was leased to Robert son of Waukelin by the Bishop.

Prior to 1066 there were three adjacent estates which comprised Caestreham which are briefly recorded in the Domesday Book as being of 1½, 4 and 8½ hides, having four mills.

According to the Domesday book he held 221 manors in Suffolk, 32 in Yorkshire, 8 in Lincolnshire, three in Essex, two in Nottinghamshire, and one in Hampshire.

Historically a part of Lancashire, three manors are recorded in the Domesday book under " Fornebei " as Halsall, Walton and Poynton.

Leicestershire had six ( up from four at Domesday ), whereas Devon, nearly three times larger, had 32.

By the time of the Domesday Book, Hertford had two churches, two markets and three mills.

In the Domesday Book of 1086 the two villages are recorded as Missedene and Little Missenden is clearly identifiable by two hides owned between three landlords.

The Domesday survey indicates that the Calverton of 1086 was held by three parties: the Archbishop of York had one part, as a berewick ( or outlying estate ) of his manor at Blidworth, with a church and priest, and the other two parts were held by Roger of Poitou and the thegn Aelfric of Colwick.

At the picturesque village of Otterton ( once a seaport on a larger Otter Estuary ) there is a working watermill in this case over 1, 000 years old ; it was one of the three largest mills in Devon as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.

The Domesday Book recorded that " foresteel " ( i. e. forestalling, the practice of buying up goods before they reach market and then inflating the prices ) was one of three forfeitures that King Edward the Confessor could carry out through England.

The village was mentioned three times in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Bectun — the name meaning a farmstead beside a stream ( or beck ).

At least three manors within the parish were recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 ( Avetone, Heathfield and Stadbury ).