(New page: The '''Domesday Book''' is the record of the great survey ordered by KingWilliam I in 1086 to document the people and property of the lands he had conquered twenty years earlier. ...)
The Domesday Book is the record of the great survey ordered by KingWilliam I in 1086 to document the people and property of the lands he had conquered twenty years earlier. It was used for legal and taxation purposes until 1522.