What does the Doomsday book contain?
The Domesday Book (also sometimes mistakingly called the Doomsday Book) records the landholders, the land owned, their tenants, how many people occupied the land (villagers, smallholders, free men, slaves, and others), the amounts of meadow, woodland, animals, fish and ploughs on the land and other assets such as any buildings present (churches, castles, mills,etc) and the whole purpose of the survey – the value of the land and its assets, before the Norman Conquest, after it, and at the time of Domesday. Certain entries also chronicle disputes over who held land, some mention customary dues that had to be paid to the king, and entries for major towns include records of traders and number of houses.
