Which areas did the Domesday Book not cover?
Most of Cumberland and Westmorland is missing. The County of Durham is missing because the Prince Bishop of Durham (William de St-Calais) had the exclusive right to tax it; in addition, parts of the north east were covered by the 1183 Boldon Book, listing areas liable to tax by the Bishop of Durham.
What was special about the Domesday Book?
Domesday is Britain’s earliest public record. It contains the results of a huge survey of land and landholding commissioned by William I in 1085. Domesday is by the far the most complete record of pre-industrial society to survive anywhere in the world and provides a unique window on the medieval world.
Why is Northumberland not in the Doomsday book?
Domesday Book describes almost all of England. However, County Durham and Northumberland do not appear because King William did not fully control these areas. One missing place was Winchester, the capital city of England in 1086.
How many places in the Domesday Book still exist today?
Domesday Book describes almost all of England and more than 13,000 places are mentioned in it. Most of them still survive today. London, Winchester, County Durham and Northumberland were not included in King William’s survey.
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Is the Domesday Book the same as the Great Domesday Book?
Though invariably called Domesday Book, in the singular, it in fact consists of two volumes quite different from each other. Volume I ( Great Domesday) contains the final summarized record of all the counties surveyed except Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
What was the population of England in the Domesday Book?
First published in 1086, it contains records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time). The information in the survey was collected by Royal commissioners who were sent out around England.
What did the commissioners do in the Domesday Book?
Commissioners were instructed to establish the geld liability of every parcel of land in England, and to collect further information that would enable them to establish that it could pay more. Every entry in Domesday Book supplies that information.
What was the name of the county in the Domesday Book?
Several related documents survive, one of which is the Exon Domesday, an early draft of the return for the circuit comprising the counties of Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Devon, and Cornwall.