Domesday

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 in the final Domesday record.

It is not known when exactly Domesday Book was compiled, but the entire copy of Great Domesday appears to have been copied out by one person on parchment (prepared sheepskin), although six scribes seem to have been used for Little Domesday.

Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond (Cambridge, 1897), p. 407 Darby says that "it would be more correct to speak not of 'the Domesday geography of England', but of 'the geography of Domesday Book'.

Importance In 1986, memorial plaques were installed in settlements mentioned in Domesday Book Domesday Book is critical to understanding the period in which it was written.

On this last occasion Great Domesday was divided into two physical volumes, and Little Domesday into three volumes.

The usual modern scholarly convention is to refer to the work as "Domesday Book" (or simply as "Domesday"), without a definite article.

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

Built in the 13th and 14th centuries the church was mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086.

The famous Domesday Book – a land survey commissioned by William the Conqueror and completed in 1086 – shows Nottinghamshire names which have been modernised, but otherwise changed very little in all that time.

It was recorded in the Domesday Book, the survey of lands in England compiled by William the Conqueror in 1086, as “Sant Dersingham,” or the sandy part of Dersingham.

Smart's books cover lists of Domesday manors, Island family genealogies, governors and town mayors, all brought to life by 600 photographs.

They said: “Beccles has been a flourishing market town since Anglo-Saxon times, being one of the relatively few places in England recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having a market.

Whether it's a description of the land or a loose translation from the Domesday book, they all have a logical explanation - but some villages and lanes in our county have such a funny name that you can't help but laugh.

Woking was mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Portsmouth was not yet a settlement let alone a city when the famous Domesday Book was penned.

The Grade II listed property features in the Domesday Records and was used to mill corn and wheat until about 1960.

The mill features in the Domesday Book and was used to mill corn and wheat until about 1960.

Recorded in Domesday Books as Wachefeld, two possible origins of this West Yorkshire name have been posited.

And indeed, there still seems to have been some kind of connexion in 1086, when south Lancashire was surveyed together with Cheshire by the Domesday commissioners.

Areas highlighted in pink now in Flintshire Cheshire in the Domesday Book (1086) is recorded as a much larger county than it is today.