The Domesday Book

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The Domesday Book, 1086

For more information about this source see Wikipedia. Also see our Category:Domesday Book.

Citations

There are at least two standard methods.

• Keats-Rohan uses references to the two folio publication of Abraham Farley in 1783.
• Phillimore numbers are more commonly used.
• WikiTree Profiles that use this source

Available online at these locations:

• National Archives Domesday site searchable with many images and transcriptions.
• "Open Domesday" AKA "Domesday Map" by Anna Powell-Smith. Images, summaries, maps.
• "Hull Domesday Project", Downloads including transcriptions and detailed studies.
• PASE Domesday site part of the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) project.
• "Domesday Book Online". Searchable.
• http://www.addisonpublications.com/domesday_book.html A commercial site selling hard copies etc.

Scanned Images

• Bedfordshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookBedfordshire
• Berkshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookBerkshire
• Buckinghamshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookBuckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookCambridgeshire
• Cheshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookCheshire
• Cornwall: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookCornwall
• Derbyshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookDerbyshire
• Devon: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookDevon
• Dorset: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookDorset
• Gloucestershire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookGloucestershire
• Hampshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookHampshire
• Herefordshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookHerefordshire
• Hertfordshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookHertfordshire
• Huntingdonshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookHuntingdonshire
• Kent: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookKent
• Leicestershire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookLeicestershire
• Lincolnshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookLincolnshire
• Middlesex: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookMiddlesex
• Northamptonshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookNorthamptonshire
• Nottinghamshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookNottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookOxfordshire
• Rutland: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookRutland
• Shropshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookShropshire
• Somerset: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookSomerset
• Staffordshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookStaffordshire
• Surrey: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookSurrey
• Sussex: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookSussex
• Warwickshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookWarwickshire
• Wiltshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookWiltshire
• Worcestershire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookWorcestershire
• Yorkshire: https://archive.org/details/DomesdayBookYorkshire

County studies

(Several of the VCH ones contain analysis by the great J.H. Round.)

• Ely Inquisition (parts of Cambridgeshire and neighbouring counties) 1876
• Essex 1903 VCH
• Norfolk 1906 VCH 1862 book
• Suffolk 1911 VCH 1863 book
• Derby. John Pym Yeatman, [1886] http://www.archive.org/details/domesdaybookforc00yeat
• Devonshire. (1884-1892) Vol 1 and Vol 2
• Lincolnshire https://archive.org/details/publicationslinc19lincuoft/
• Bedfordshire https://archive.org/details/cu31924088434174

Domesday Book Information:

• Hull Domesday Project
• A Digest of the Domesday of Bedfordshire, by Airy, William, 1881
• The Domesday Boroughs, by Ballard, Adolphus. 1867-1915, Published 1904
• The Domesday Inquest, by Adolphus Ballard, Published 1906
• Notes on Domesday, by Robert William Eyton, Published 1880
• Domesday Book and Beyond, by Maitland, Frederic William, 1850-1906, Published 1897
• Domesday and Feudal Statistics, by Inman, A. H, Published 1900
• Domesday Studies, being the papers read at the meetings of the Domesday commemoration 1886. With a bibliography of Domesday book and accounts of the mss. and printed books exhibited at the Public record office and at the British museum. by Domesday Commemoration (1886); Dove, P. Edward (Patrick Edward), 1854-1894, ed, Published 1888
• The Domesday Geography Of South-East England

• Bedfordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Middlesex
• Buckinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Berkshire
• Hampshire
• Surrey
• Sussex
• Kent

WikiTree Syntax

• Source Example using Phillimore numbers:
  • <span id='TDB'></span>''[[Space:The_Domesday_Book|The Domesday Book]]'' (England, 1086) Phillimore reference: 10,93.
  • ([[#TDB|Domesday Book]])