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The '''Domesday Book''' is the record of the great survey ordered by [[King]] [[William I]] in 1086 to document the people and property of the territory in [[Great Britain]] he had conquered twenty years earlier. It was used for legal and taxation purposes until 1522.
The '''Domesday Book''' is the record of the great survey ordered by [[King]] [[William I]] in 1086 to document the people and property of the territory in [[Great Britain]] he had conquered twenty years earlier. It was used for legal and taxation purposes until 1522.
Although it is popularly said to have covered the whole of [[England]], there are several parts of the country which do not appear in the book. [[Scotland]]'s border reached south to the rivers Tees and Ribble in those days, meaning that the current English counties of [[County Durham]] and [[Northumberland]] do not appear. Parts of [[Lancashire]] north of the Ribble are also excluded. [[London]] and the then-important [[Winchester]] are not recorded either.
==Great Domesday and Little Domesday==
The Domesday Book is divided into two parts. Great Domesday was never finished in William's lifetime. It covers most of the territory described. Little domesday only covers a few Eastern counties such as [[Essex]] and [[Norfolk]], but goes into much more detail about them.
==External links==
*[http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/index.html Domesday Book Online]
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/domesday.asp Domesday at the UK's National Archive]
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