The statue shows hodge sitting next to a pair of empty oyster shells on top of a copy of johnsons dictionary, with the inscription a very fine cat indeed. George munford an analysis of the domesday book, of the county of norfolk 1858 the domesday of st. The manor of lewisham belonged to the abbey of ghent. In 1086, king william i the conqueror wanted to find out. At its centre is the historic town of croydon from which the borough takes its name. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. 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. Rocote has sometimes been identified with rycote near thame rendered reicote elsewhere in domesday book, but radcot is overwhelmingly more likely. It has been cited as an example of digital obsolescence on account of the physical medium used for data storage. The first volume great domesday contains the final summarized record of all the counties surveyed except essex, norfolk, and suffolk. The glassmills leisure centre overlooks the ravensbourne and in researching the site the developers research found this was originally the site of a watermill used to grind corn, and after 1756 the mill became a glass cutting business. Domesday book is the oldest government record held in the national archives. The anglosaxon chronicle states that planning for the survey was conducted in 1085, and the books colophon states the survey was completed in 1086. Though the domesday book gives historians a detailed picture of what life was like in england in 10851086, the book did miss out important cities such as winchester then a major english city and london.
In 1086 william the conquerer commanded a survey of the country for taxation purposes. The area is identified in the london plan as one of 35 major centres in greater london, although. London history, local history, old london, east london, building costs, high road, on the high street, vintage photography, old photos. No other western european state produced anything even broadly comparable in its scope until several centuries later. There were 377 places in the county of kent in domesday book. The term is given greater precision in the phillimore edition, where each entry is assigned a unique reference.
The following pages include domesday placenames and landowners, and beneath some are links to websites containing the local history of that place. Domesday book south yorkshire local history derbyshire places of interest vintage photos monochrome england weather. The project gutenberg ebook, domesday book and beyond, by frederic william maitland. Ipacen is a major innercity district in south east london, england, located in the london borough of lewisham. In fact there are two domesday books little domesday and great domesday, which together contain a great deal of information about england in the 11th century. The entry relating to the ownership of land in the parish of aston cantlow and the surrounding area is shown below. Enter your email address to subscribe to the beacon and receive notifications of new posts by email. Pauls of the year mccxxii 1858 henry james domesday book, or, the great survey of england of william the conqueror a. After the norman invasion and conquest of england in 1066, the domesday book. The project gutenberg ebook of domesday book and beyond. The domesday book was commissioned in december 1085 by william the conqueror, who invaded england in 1066. Lewisham was the site of fashionable mansions in the 17th and 18th centuries. Another international link, of much longer standing, is to belgium, more particularly the flanders city of ghent as the land that forms much of the current borough was under the control of the. The outcome of that speech was the mission throughout all england of barons, legates or justices charged with the duty of.
This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. In the south of england the hundreds were administrative. Entry is the term generally used by historians to refer to separate a domesday holding. The league also appears sometimes to have been used as a. Domesday book at the tower of london by ashbee, jeremy. 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 the border with scotland at the time. For a short time it was known as glass mill but it is generally known as lewisham bridge mill. The domesday book was compiled somewhere between 1085 and 1086 ad on the command of king william i of england, and is the result of a painstaking economic and social survey that was undertaken at that time. See more ideas about local history, mobile library and london history. Maitland, domesday book and beyond university of tulsa. All entry numbers cited in this edition are those defined by the phillimore translation.
In all,418 places were visited and the final record was produced in winchester by a monk. The first record of the placename lewisham dates from 862 ce. 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. Domesday book running past south east london history. In domesday book 1086, lewisham village was listed as levesham, deptford was included as depeford deep ford, and brockley was written as brochelie.
The name domesday book middle english for doomsday book came into use in the 12th century. It was one of the 11 watermills on the banks of the river ravensbourne mentioned in the domesday book of 1086. But what william the conqueror didnt have in the domesday book was an easy way of searching its reams of data. The book is preserved in two volumes at the public record office, london, and its name comes from the belief that its judgement was as final as that of domesday. Mlxxxvi 1862 anderson, john corbet 18271907 shropshire. 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. Ralph delchard, a soldier and gervase bret, a lawyer, in 11th century england, in the domesday series. The first records of lewisham bridge mill date from 1700. Residents of hampstead might not be too pleased to learn that their exclusive london village once housed more pigs than people but this is just one of the fascinating insights to be gained from reading the domesday book.
The domesday book is actually not one book but two. 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. Domesday book, our earliest public record, is a rare and remarkable survey which details landholding and resources in late eleventhcentury england. New cross is an area of south east london, england, 4. London was a settlement in domesday book, in the hundred of ossulstone, mentioned in the chapters for devon, essex, leicestershire, middlesex, surrey and worcestershire it had a recorded population of 204. New cross is a district of lewisham in south london, england, 4.
Entrance gates local history ash burns london ebay entry gates. New cross is near st johns, telegraph hill, nunhead, peckham, brockley, deptford and greenwich, and home to goldsmiths, university of london, haberdashers askes hatcham college and addey and stanhope school new cross. Lewisham borough, london, united kingdom britannica. 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. 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. A while ago running past looked at the links of lewisham to its namesake suburb of sydney, both in the name and through transportation. Domesday book contains fascinating information such as land ownership, livestock and even local customs.
The domesday book one of the most valuable records of the uks past history. Domesday survey wikisource, the free online library. Domesday book isleworth 70 hides or households 1086 isleworth entry on folio from the domesday book. There is no mention in domesday of the tower of london, which this month becomes home to one of the volumes of great domesday as part of a new exhibition exploring the castles role as a repository for state papers. But i think he misunderstood the alteration therein. Like many domesday measures, there is no certainty about the extent of the league, or even whether it was a linear or areal unit. The hounslow hundred in 1086 twickenham formed part of the manor of isleworth which with the manor of hampton which included teddington were part of the hundred of hounslow. Another in the occasional series on historical sites on the london loop london outer orbital path walk chingford was first recorded as cingefort sic in the domesday book of 1086, and as chingeford in 1181, probably taking its name from the old english cingel, meaning shingle, and ford, and alluding to an ancient crossingpoint on the river lea. There is a super website called the prosopography of anglosaxon england database project by kings college london and cambridge university. New cross is near st johns, telegraph hill, nunhead, peckham, brockley, deptford and greenwich, and home to goldsmiths, university of london, haberdashers askes hatcham college and addey and.
Although scholars have adduced carolingian, byzantine and islamic parallels, no document of such an early date is so comprehensive in its account of a realm 1. Though there may normally have been 12 furlongs to the league, for instance, it has been argued that the wiltshire league was 15 furlongs long, that of worcestershire only four. Ickenham is an area centred on an old village in greater london, part of the london borough of hillingdon while no major historical events have taken place in ickenham, settlements dating back to the roman occupation of britain have been discovered during archaeological surveys, and the area appears in the domesday book. A complete translation domesday book is one of the most famous documents in english history. Introduction to the somerset domesday british history online.
On the opposite side of gough square is a statue of dr johnsons favourite cat, hodge, unveiled in 1997 by the lord mayor. London was a settlement in domesday book, in the hundred of ossulstone, mentioned in the chapters for devon, essex, leicestershire, middlesex, surrey and worcestershire. For these three counties the full, unabbreviated return sent in to winchester by the commissioners is preserved in the second volume little domesday, which, for some reason, was never summarized and added to the larger volume. He can be identified as alsige of faringdon, for the entry in question precedes that for shiptonunderwychwood, and follows an entry which records his sons possession of bletchingdon see below. On their home page, select domesday book tab, enter judith in names box, and countess in description box. A complete translation is not light reading, but jonathan sumption is fascinated by the first record of all property held in britain. Domesday book at midwinter in the year 1085 william the conqueror wore his crown at gloucester and there he had deep speech with his wise men. It is not known when exactly domesday book was compiled, but the entire copy of great domesday appears to have been copied out by one person on parchment prepared sheepskin, although six scribes seem to. Domesday book was a major survey of almost the whole of england it did not include london, winchester and a few other places completed in just a few months in 1086 by order of king william i. Uploaded by the open domesday project, released under ccbysa by professor john palmer and george slater. The following line shows the name of lewisham also with a red line through it. The london borough of croydon pronunciation help info is a london borough in south london, part of outer london. See professor maitlands domesday book and beyond, pp.
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