England · House / House of Normandy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
A national valuation list, estimating the annual value of all the land in the country, at the time of Edward the Confessor's death, when the new owners received it, at the time of the survey, and the potential value as well for the purposes of taxation.
Reveals England has a population of 1.5 million.
The Domesday Book is in two parts, "Little Domesday" (covering Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex) and "Great Domesday" (covering much of the remainder of England and parts of Wales, except for lands in the north which later became Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, and the County Palatine of Durham but no surveys were
The survey's main purpose is to determine what taxes had been owed during the reign of King Edward the Confessor.
made of the City of London and Winchester, probably due to their tax-exempt status.
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