The Domesday Book has long been used as a source of information about legal and economic matters, but its bearing upon the geography of medieval England has bee

This edition has been considerably revised to take account of further research on this subject and place-name identification. The treatment of statistics for bo

New light is shed on the motives and objectives for the compiling of the still-mysterious Domesday Book, revolutionising our understanding of the period. The Do

East Anglia's political and economic importance in the middle ages is plain for all to see, stemming initially from its crucial position on the eastern shores o

The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the fa