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12 unusual facts about Doomsday Book|


Billingsley, Shropshire

Billingsley is not named in the Doomsday Book because it was actually a detached portion of the Manor of Morville.

Blithfield

The "late-Saxon" settlement of Blithfield, which appears in the "Doomsday" did not last, and the last documented evidence of the village was in 1334.

Clayworth

Clayworth appears as Clavord in the Doomsday Book, where 37 households were registered in the parish, which in the context of the Doomsday Book was considered to be a large population.

Doomsday Book

Domesday Book or Doomsday Book, an 11th-century survey of England

John Sherburne

In addition to their Continental aristocratic connections, the Sherburnes of Stonyhurst were among England's oldest families, their ancestors the Mittons on the same lands having been mentioned in the Doomsday Book.

Newton Court

The Doomsday Book mentions that a mill might have been present in the area.

Prestbury, Gloucestershire

Prestbury appears in the Doomsday Book of 1086 as Presteberie, part of the property of the church of Hereford, with residents as 18 villagers, five smallholders, a priest, a riding man and 11 slaves.

Smithdown Road, Liverpool

The area was previously known as Smithdown (or Smeedon in Olde English) and dates back to 1086 when it was listed in the Doomsday Book.

St Giles in the Wood

Dodscott, about 3/4 mile NE of the parish church and 3/4 NW of Winscott, was listed in the Doomsday Book of 1086.

St Mary, Hadleigh

In the Doomsday Book there is mention of a church at “Hetlega” being owend by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canturbury.

St Michael's Church, Kirkham

Kirkham was one of the oldest foundations in Lancashire and one of only three listed in the Doomsday Book as existing in Amounderness.

Weston-under-Redcastle

Weston-under-Redcastle was pronounced as Westune in the 1086 Doomsday Book, it was included in the Hundred of Hodnet within the county of Shropshire.