The first records of lewisham bridge mill date from 1700. At the time of king edward the confessors death it paid tax for three hides units of roughly 80120 acres. In the medieval context this was the purchasing of goods to monopolise them and raise prices or restricting open access to goods at a market, however in domesday. Arable land was recorded in different units, including. Domesday book the domesday book was a survey designed to record everything that people owned in england. Open domesday interactive map, listing details of each manor or holdings of each tenant, plus. Jun 17, 2016 george munford an analysis of the domesday book, of the county of norfolk 1858 the domesday of st. The domesday book has long been used as a source of information about legal and economic matters, but its bearing upon the geography of medieval england has been comparatively neglected. If you have a local history site that you would like to be included on these pages please get in touch via the contact page. Both in domesday book and in the exon survey the text distinctly supports this view.
Rename this file and keep as a backup, then place the downloaded version in the domesday explorer directory. English translation of newton entry 1819 copy for clarification, see latin abbreviations. Lewishams 500 year belgian connection running past. The bbc domesday project was a partnership between acorn computers, philips, logica and the bbc with some funding from the european commissions esprit programme to mark the 900th anniversary of the original domesday book, an 11thcentury census of england. Nevertheless, it is worth the effort in trying to tease out the underlying information, not least because any sources for the eleventh century are invaluable. Mar 30, 2008 here is the entry for cottingham use this to make up your own entry. Essay by david roffe arguing that the production of domesday book was a different enterprise from the domesday inquest. Find out how to search for your town or village, and how to access images of domesday along with an english translation, using our research guide. There are a number of entries which apply to guilden morden in the domesday book 1086. Domesday book and its statistics is a freezeframe snapshot of the process. It contains the results of a huge survey of land and landholding commissioned by william i in 1085. It had a recorded population of 62 households in 1086, putting it in the largest 20% of settlements recorded in domesday. It now resides at the national archives in kew, the successor to the pro, formed in 2003 when that merged with the historical manuscripts commission. May 17, 2011 the doomsday book is the record of an indepth survey of england and wales completed in 1086.
Uploaded by the open domesday project, released under ccbysa by professor john palmer and george slater. It was ordered by william the conqueror the winner of the recent battle of hastings so that william could determine how much money in taxes he could raise and to give william a better sense of the territory he had just conquered. The first draft was completed in august 1086 and contained records for,418 settlements in the english counties south of the rivers ribble and tees. Domesday book details made available in map form bbc news. Check and see whether your town or village was mentioned in the domesday book by entering a search above. Generally around 120 acres, though the area varied depending on the quality of the land. Very often, again, the parish or township looks on our map like a hybrid. Domesday explorer the text has been tagged with over 500,000 codes, and a powerful search engine lets you easily find entries of interest, map them, display the facsimile and the. This document, regarded as the first great work of a bureaucratic state, was commissioned by king william i of england known as the conqueror, amongst other things to provide a record of the land he had conquered 20 years before in 1066. The domesday geography of southeast england domesday. The national archives is the home of domesday book, the oldest surviving public record. Probably, there was no great distinction between steeple and guilden morden both villages being thinly populated and spread out. Mar 03, 2002 digital domesday book lasts 15 years not.
Domesday book extracts makes available over 8,500 fascinating extracts featuring the actual page entry for your town, a translation and glossary. The project gutenberg ebook of domesday book and beyond. A complete translation domesday book is one of the most famous documents in english history. The first appearance of moreton in the written historical record is in domesday book, compiled in 1086. Little domesday covering norfolk, suffolk, and essex, and great domesday covering much of the remainder of england except for lands in the north that later became westmorland, cumberland, northumberland, and the county palatine of durham and parts of wales bordering, and included. How much was the whole worth in 1066, and how much now 1086 note that not every piece of information is recorded for every entry in domesday. The first volume great domesday contains the final summarized record of all the counties surveyed except essex, norfolk, and suffolk. In order to do this, it is necessary to consider all the db information about the abbey of st wandrille and its english holdings. Domesday book, compiled in 1086 at the behest of william the conqueror, has been described as the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation david hume and viewed by historians as the final act of the norman conquest. The doomsday book is in the process of being digitised and parts are now available online. The domesday book was a taxation survey of most of england and wales, completed in 1086. It provides a picture of a land which was in transition from a tributary to a truly manorial society and as such preserves the vestiges of a much earlier society as well as the seeds of future change. Before the conquest, game the thegnl had jurisdiction over rochdale rochdale was called recedham in the domesday book, except for six exemptions, which included forestalingl.
Hayway clay bank, hook norton report on fixmystreet report a problem with the roads report a pothole or a road problem to the council by clicking here. Its purpose was to establish material wealth of land owners and create a record of tax liability after the norman conquest of the country. Domesday book home the domesday book one of the most valuable records of the uks past history. Here is the entry for cottingham use this to make up your own entry. Digital domesday book lasts 15 years not uk news the. On the face of the map there is no reason why a particular group of. Commercial site with extracts from domesday book domesday book entries including translations for each settlement. There were 377 places in the county of kent in domesday book.
Domesday book phillimore series by john robert morris. For the first time the entire book is available online. Daniel lysons, lewisham, in the environs of london. Ipacen is a major innercity district in south east london, england, located in the london borough of lewisham. The domesday book this comprehensive survey of england was commissioned by william the conqueror in 1085. On the first line of the new paragraph can be seen the name for greenwich highlighted by the scribe with a red line through it. Click on a county name on the map to continue, or use the list of links below it. To find an entry within it consult the phillimore volume for the relevant county or the composite indexes of persons, subjects and places or the place index in domesday book.
To see full names of counties hold your mouse over the name. No other western european state produced anything even broadly comparable in its scope until several centuries later. Domesday book was compiled in ad 1086 for william the conqueror. The domesday book was one of the records transferred here, in 1859 from westminster abbey.
Domesday entry, posing as many questions as it answers. Nearest road to the pin placed on the map automatically generated by bing maps. It is located 21 km mi southeast by east of charing cross, in the northeast corner of the london borough of bromley on the borough boundary with the southeast corner of the london borough of bexley, and is also adjacent to the greater london border with kent, overlapping into the sevenoaks. It has been cited as an example of digital obsolescence on account of the physical medium used for data storage. The area is identified in the london plan as one of 35 major centres in greater london, although lewisham london borough council aspires to upgrade the town centre to become a metropolitan centre like. Crowthorne wasnt even a speck on the map at that time, but i thought the results for the nearest places might be of interest. Introduction to the somerset domesday british history online. Learn more about out why and how domesday was created, and how to interpret it, in discover domesday. After a general introduction to the complexities of the domesday survey and the book, we will focus on east anglian themes with a detailed look at little domesday told through an examination of the fiefs of two of the regions great abbeys, an investigation into the fortunes of an anglosaxon kin group over several generations and then a look at how the 1066 conquest and its repercussions. Domesday book, our earliest public record, is a rare and remarkable survey which details landholding and resources in late eleventhcentury england. Apr 26, 2009 before the conquest, game the thegnl had jurisdiction over rochdale rochdale was called recedham in the domesday book, except for six exemptions, which included forestalingl. There are some 418 towns and villages recorded in the domesday book, covering 40 of the old counties of england. For a short time it was known as glass mill but it is generally known as lewisham bridge mill.
Mills in the domesday book windmills at windmill world. In the medieval context this was the purchasing of goods to monopolise them and raise prices or restricting open access to goods at a market, however in domesday this. This entry was posted in lewisham history and tagged abbey of ghent, alfred the great, domesday book, elfrida, flanders, ghent, lee. Domesday book is a manuscript record of the great survey of much of england and parts of. Create a fictional english town name, remember to make it sound anglosaxon with a ton at the end eg. It was one of the 11 watermills on the banks of the river ravensbourne mentioned in the domesday book of 1086. Dr stephen baxter, who presents the bbc domesday programme part of a series on the normans said it was the first time people would be able to generate maps.
It records the number of households, the economic resources, who owned the land, and the tax paid to the king, for almost every settlement in england. Domesday is by the far the most complete record of preindustrial society to survive anywhere in the world and provides a unique window on the medieval world. This map shows every place in domesday that can still be located today. The following line shows the name of lewisham also with a red line through it. The above exon domesday entry for sturminster newton is for convenience as follows. Pauls of the year mccxxii 1858 henry james domesday book, or, the great survey of england of william the conqueror a.
Domesday book appears to me, not indeed as the known, but as the knowable. The extraction of geographical information involves problems of interpretation, since it necessitates an analysis into elements and their subsequent. Rochdale in the domesday book medieval documentation for. In domesday book lewisham is described, under the title of the possessions of the.
Hayway clay bank, hook norton report on fixmystreet. On the opposite side of gough square is a statue of dr johnsons favourite cat, hodge, unveiled in 1997 by the lord mayor. Lewlewisham london c1 london bridge c1 london bridge station c7 london in 1891 c4 maps of london. Webb, philip carteret 17001770 a short account of some particulars concerning domesday book. In entry after entry and county after county the servi are kept well apart from. The domesday book online contents of the domesday book. Domesday book phillimore series 11 primary works total works this series lists the volumes of the domesday book as divided for the phillimore editions. In the year 1085, william the conqueror spent christmas at gloucester. In entry after entry and county after county the servi are kept well apart from the villani, bordarii, cotarii. Access field, and when it will be open is given in the catalogue entry. Ive just discovered the open domesday site, the first free online copy of domesday book. The doomsday book is the record of an indepth survey of england and wales completed in 1086. Notes on the churches in the counties of kent, sussex, and surrey, mentioned in domesday book.
Domesday book encompasses two independent works in, originally, two physical volumes. The statue shows hodge sitting next to a pair of empty oyster shells on top of a copy of johnsons dictionary, with. The detailed picture of the english landscape it offers has no equal in any country, while it is valuable not only in the picture it allows local historians to construct of their area in the eleventh century but also as the foundation document of the national archives. All entry numbers cited in this edition are those defined by the phillimore translation. These pages give an overview of the domesday inquest, great domesday, and the purpose, structure, and terminology of domesday book, with references for further study.
Roughly translated, the entry for moreton reads as follows. Aug 10, 2010 dr stephen baxter, who presents the bbc domesday programme part of a series on the normans said it was the first time people would be able to generate maps showing the land owned by individuals. The tenants of the bishop of winchester hold the bishops pleas at taunton. Little domesday covering norfolk, suffolk, and essex, and great domesday covering much of the remainder of england except for lands in the north that later became westmorland, cumberland, northumberland, and the county palatine of durham and parts of wales bordering, and included within. The project gutenberg ebook of domesday book and beyond, by. Translation for domesday book in the free englishfrench dictionary and many other french translations. Mlxxxvi 1862 anderson, john corbet 18271907 shropshire.
Volume 4, counties of herts, essex and kent london, 1796, pp. A ploughland terra carucis or carucata was the area that could be ploughed by eight oxen in a year. On the floor at the entrance of the vault, are the tombs of john peter fn. In entry after entry and county after county the servi are kept well apart from the. North riding the following pages will include domesday placenames and landowners, and links to websites containing the local history of settlements. Now in domesday book we must look to several different pages to get this information about the vill of abington,dash. A complete translation foreword by geoffrey martin 1,436pp, penguin classics. Domesday survey wikisource, the free online library. The pro had been formed in 1838 to streamline the maintenance of government and court records.
In king edwards time, it was taxed for twentytwo hides. Ruxley is a small settlement in southeast london, england, with no present formal boundaries. The majority of these still exist in some form today. Produced under the supervision of the most renowned domesday scholars, this authoritative translation of the complete domesdayoffers a remarkable portrait of. The domesday book is actually not one book but two. For these three counties the full, unabbreviated return sent in to winchester by the commissioners is preserved in the second volume little domesday, which. This page simply lists all places mentioned in domesday book. The term is given greater precision in the phillimore edition, where each entry is assigned a unique reference. Entry is the term generally used by historians to refer to separate a domesday holding. Lewisham was a settlement in domesday book, in the hundred of greenwich and the county of kent.