Where have all the Floures gone? And what about all those Pauncefoots, Bythewoods, Footheads, Villins and Puscats? Thousands of quirky medieval English surnames recorded in the Domesday Book are ...

It’s no good asking the Bythewoods - some traditional surnames that date back hundreds of years are now becoming extinct, ... a name which appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, as Pauncevolt ...

First recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book as ‘de Anesi’, it’s a Norman-French name for someone from Anisy in Normandy - later to be recorded as d’Anesi and eventually Dansie. Debenham/Debnam ...

The Little Domesday Book likely was an earlier draft, containing detailed information gathered from the Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex regions, which for some reason were not included in the GDB.

Produced at amazing speed in the years after the Conquest, the Domesday Book provides a vivid picture of late 11th-century England. Find out how it was compiled, and what it reveals about life in ...

Domesday Book is the product of an extraordinary survey of England commissioned by King William the Conqueror in 1085. It in fact comprises two volumes, now preserved at the National Archives ...

The Domesday Book was compiled on the orders of William I, who became England’s king when he defeated the Saxon king, Harold, at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. In 1085, he ordered a survey to ...

Domesday Book recorded and “froze” a situation in which all the land in post-Norman-conquest England was primarily held by just 0.02 per cent of the population.

They have developed a way to access the information gathered by the BBC's Domesday project which had been stored on outdated technology. The project was developed by the BBC to create a computer-based ...

“This surname was first recorded in Suffolk in the 1086 Domesday Book as ‘Faira’, which is an Old English nickname for someone who is ‘fair and beautiful’,” explains Charlie.