Domesday Book

n. book containing records of a land survey that was ordered by William the Conqueror during the 11th century

This article is about the 11th century census. See BBC Domesday Project for the multimedia project and Doomsday Book (novel) for the Connie Willis novel. Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William I of England. The survey was similar to a census by a government of today. William needed information about the country he had just conquered so he could administer it. While spending Christmas of 1085 in Gloucester, William "had deep speech with his counsellors and sent men all over England to each shire ... to find out ... what or how much each landholder had in land and livestock, and what it was worth." (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
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Noun
1. record of a British land survey ordered by William the Conqueror
(hypernym) written record, written account

DOME, DOOM-BOOK - A book in which Alfred the Great, of England, after uniting the Saxon heptarchy, collected the various customs dispersed through the kingdom and digested them into one uniform code.

DOMESDAY or DOMESDAY-BOOK - An ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror and now remaining in the English exchequer, consisting of two volumes of unequal sizes, containing surveys of the lands in England.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

domesday book
danh từ sổ điền thổ lập theo lệnh của William the Conqueror (1806)
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