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 The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror.
The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418
settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees.
The original Domesday Book has survived over 900 years of English history and is
currently housed in a specially made chest at London's Public Record Office in
Kew, London.
The Domesday Book is a great land survey to assess the extent of the land and
resources being owned in England at the time, and the extent of the taxes. The
information collected was recorded by hand in two huge books, in the space of
around a year.
It was written by an observer of the survey that there was no single hide nor
a yard of land, nor indeed one ox nor one cow nor one pig which was left out.
The grand and comprehensive scale on which the Domesday survey took place and
the irreversible nature of the information collected led people to compare it to
the Last Judgement, or 'Doomsday', described in the Bible.
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