Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter I THE DOMESDAY INQUEST
- Chapter II RURAL SETTLEMENTS
- Chapter III POPULATION
- Chapter IV ARABLE LAND
- Chapter V GRASSLAND, MARSH AND LIVESTOCK
- Chapter VI WOODLAND AND FOREST
- Chapter VII ANNUAL VALUES
- Chapter VIII DEVASTATED LAND
- Chapter IX INDUSTRY
- Chapter X BOROUGHS AND TOWNS
- Chapter XI THE WELSH MARCH
- Appendix 1 General Statistical Summary by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 2 Summary of Categories of Rural Population
- Appendix 3 Categories of Rural Population by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 4 Churches and Priests by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 5 The Shropshire Ploughland Formulae
- Appendix 6 The Leicestershire Ploughland Formulae
- Appendix 7 The Yorkshire Ploughland Formulae
- Appendix 8 References to Marsh
- Appendix 9 References to Forests
- Appendix 10 References to Hawks and Renders of Hawks
- Appendix 11 References to firma unius noctis/diei
- Appendix 12 Annual Values for Rural Holdings in 1086 by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 13 References to Iron and Renders of Iron
- Appendix 14 Statistical Summary of Mills by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 15 References to Vineyards
- Appendix 16 Statistical Summary of Boroughs
- Appendix 17 References to Markets
- Appendix 18 References to Mints
- Appendix 19 Extension and Translation of examples of Domesday entries
- Appendix 20 The Domesday Geography of England: Editors and Contributors
- Appendix 21 On the Writing of Domesday Geography
- Index
Appendix 21 - On the Writing of Domesday Geography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter I THE DOMESDAY INQUEST
- Chapter II RURAL SETTLEMENTS
- Chapter III POPULATION
- Chapter IV ARABLE LAND
- Chapter V GRASSLAND, MARSH AND LIVESTOCK
- Chapter VI WOODLAND AND FOREST
- Chapter VII ANNUAL VALUES
- Chapter VIII DEVASTATED LAND
- Chapter IX INDUSTRY
- Chapter X BOROUGHS AND TOWNS
- Chapter XI THE WELSH MARCH
- Appendix 1 General Statistical Summary by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 2 Summary of Categories of Rural Population
- Appendix 3 Categories of Rural Population by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 4 Churches and Priests by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 5 The Shropshire Ploughland Formulae
- Appendix 6 The Leicestershire Ploughland Formulae
- Appendix 7 The Yorkshire Ploughland Formulae
- Appendix 8 References to Marsh
- Appendix 9 References to Forests
- Appendix 10 References to Hawks and Renders of Hawks
- Appendix 11 References to firma unius noctis/diei
- Appendix 12 Annual Values for Rural Holdings in 1086 by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 13 References to Iron and Renders of Iron
- Appendix 14 Statistical Summary of Mills by Domesday Counties
- Appendix 15 References to Vineyards
- Appendix 16 Statistical Summary of Boroughs
- Appendix 17 References to Markets
- Appendix 18 References to Mints
- Appendix 19 Extension and Translation of examples of Domesday entries
- Appendix 20 The Domesday Geography of England: Editors and Contributors
- Appendix 21 On the Writing of Domesday Geography
- Index
Summary
I became interested in Domesday Book while working on the medieval Fenland in the early 1930s. The Domesday entries for the fenland villages yielded a harvest of information about such items as fisheries, salt-pans, ploughteams and population. I soon realised, however, that the individuality of fenland economy could be appreciated only by contrasting this information with that for the upland around. And this led to an examination of the complete Domesday texts for the surrounding counties. The first paper (on ‘Domesday woodland in East Anglia’) appeared in 1934 and others followed in the next few years. In the meantime, some of my pupils at Cambridge became interested; they also began to compile Domesday maps on a county basis, and a number of these were likewise published in the 1930s. We were much concerned with the best way in which to present the information. Some of our early work was very unsophisticated as may be seen from a map of Wiltshire woodland which appeared in 1935 and which showed the formula ‘m leagues by n leagues’ as so many rectangles.
It was an exciting time, and the picture was changing from week to week. Much of the excitement arose from the fitting together of maps of adjacent counties and so seeing how the distributions carried over from one county to another.
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- Domesday England , pp. 375 - 384Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1977
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