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.

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

At Christmas 1085, William ordered the compilation of a survey of the landholdings of him and his vassals throughout the kingdom, organised by counties, a work now known as the Domesday Book.

William Rufus inherited the Anglo-Norman settlement detailed in the Domesday Book, a survey undertaken at his father's command, essentially for the purposes of taxation, which could not have been undertaken anywhere else in Europe at that time, and is a sign of the control of the English monarchy.

* 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.

* 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.

* The Domesday survey is commissioned by William I of England, apparently prompted by the abortive invasion of Canute IV of Denmark, to ensure proper taxation and levies.

* 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.

Domesday Book ( or ), now held at The National Archives, Kew, in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086.

One of the main purposes of the survey was to determine who held what and what taxes had been liable under Edward the Confessor ; the judgment of the Domesday assessors was final — whatever the book said about who held the material wealth or what it was worth, was the law, and there was no appeal.

A survey approaching the scope and extent of the Domesday Book was not attempted until the Return of Owners of Land, 1873 which presented the first subsequent complete picture of the distribution of landed property in the British Isles and is thus sometimes referred to as the " Modern Domesday ".

The Domesday survey therefore recorded the names of the new holders of lands and the assessments on which their tax was to be paid.

# The Boldon Buke — a survey of the bishopric of Durham a century later than Domesday.

In 1986, the BBC released the BBC Domesday Project, the results of a project to create a survey to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book.

Darby first cites F. W. Maitland's comment following his compilation of a table of statistics from material taken from the Domesday Book survey, " it will be remembered that, as matters now stand, two men not unskilled in Domesday might add up the number of hides in a county and arrive at very different results because they would hold different opinions as to the meanings of certain formulas which are not uncommon ", then after adding that " each county presents its own problems " Darby concedes that " it would be more correct to speak not of ' the Domesday geography of England ', but of ' the geography of Domesday Book '.

At the time of the Domesday Book survey Ludlow was the location of the unoccupied large Stanton Manor, a possession of Walter de Lacy.

The Exeter Domesday Book records that, at the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, the site was held ( probably by lease from the Abbey ) by one Uluert, and by Roger de Corcella at the time of the survey in 1086.

The Domesday survey was an administrative survey of the landholdings of the kingdom, and was unique to medieval Europe.

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

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.

Emsworth was not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

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.

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

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.

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 '.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

The Domesday Book recorded the county as having nine hundreds.

The town was recorded as Gressgrava in the Domesday Book, by the late 15th century its name had become Kesgrave.

More problematic interpretations suggest that it could also have reached as far south as Rochdale in Greater Manchester, recorded in the Domesday Book as Recedham.

The town was recorded in the Domesday Book, and expanded thereafter.

Through comparison of what details are recorded in which counties, six " circuits " can be determined ( plus a seventh circuit for the Little Domesday shires ).

Southwark is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Sudweca.

The name is recorded in the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) as Essebretone.

Axminster was recorded in the late 9th century as Ascanmynster and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Aixeministra.

The Domesday Book recorded twenty-six vills or townships as being held by Earl Tostig forming the Manor of Hougun.

Its Domesday assets were recorded as including 13 hides, ' a new and handsome church ', 5 ploughs, of meadow, and woodland for 5 pigs.

It has a strong and vibrant local history which includes Saxon burial mounds and an Iron Age field system on Farthing Downs, an ancient church recorded in the Domesday book, Marlpit ( a former industrial chalk quarry ) and the former Cane Hill Mental Hospital ( a site currently under development ).

This practice even gets recorded in the Domesday Book entry for Hanwell.

Harefield enters recorded history through the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) as Herefelle, comprising the Anglo-Saxon words Here " army " ( c. f.

In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded the manor as Mordone, part of Wallington Hundred.

The medieval village had its origins in the Saxon period and is recorded in the Domesday Book.

Wit lost much of his land during the Norman conquest of England ; Ernulf de Hesdin took control of Ruislip — his ownership is recorded within the 1086 Domesday Book.

The area was recorded in the Domesday Book as Stanmere, the name deriving from the Old English stan, ' stony ' and mere, ' a pool '.

Stoke Newington is recorded as part of the Ossulstone hundred in the county of Middlesex in the Domesday Book of 1086.

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 '.

Walthamstow is recorded c. 1075 as Wilcumestowe (" The Place of Welcome ") and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wilcumestou.

A settlement in the area named Ham is first recorded as Hamme in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 958 and then in the 1086 Domesday Book as Hame.

At the time the Domesday Book was compiled ( around 1087 ), Wimbledon was part of the manor of Mortlake, and so was not recorded.