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The 31 pages that link to Domesday Book, each with the reason it gives.

• EnclosureRelated: Its records offer evidence about landholding centuries before the major English enclosure movements.

• Anglo-Saxon EnglandRelated: Its records document the scale of institutional change after the conquest.

• Battle of HastingsRelated: It records the transformed ownership of land under the Norman regime established after the battle.

• Bayeux TapestryRelated: Like the tapestry, it records the new Norman order, but through administrative inventory.

• Harold GodwinsonRelated: Its records document the redistribution of estates after Harold’s defeat.

• Anglo-Saxon kingshipRelated: Its comprehensive record shows how post-Conquest rulers inherited and intensified royal administrative practices.

• WatermillRelated: Its entries reveal how numerous mills had become in England by the late eleventh century.

• Historic counties of EnglandRelated: Its entries record many counties and local divisions soon after the Norman Conquest.

• Harrying of the NorthRelated: Its records show extensive areas of northern land described as waste.

• WiltshireRelated: Its entries document the county’s settlements and estates soon after the Norman Conquest.

• Anglo-Saxon chartersRelated: Comparisons with charters help trace land and lordship across the Norman Conquest.

• BedfordshireRelated: Its entries document Bedfordshire settlements and estates shortly after the Norman Conquest.

• NormansRelated: Its record reveals how conquest reorganized English land and taxation.

• BuckinghamshireRelated: Its entries document settlements and landholding across medieval Buckinghamshire.

• DerbyshireRelated: Its entries document Derbyshire communities and estates soon after the Norman Conquest.

• StaffordshireRelated: Its entries document settlements and estates across early Staffordshire.

• Lady GodivaRelated: Its records help situate Godiva among the landholders of post-Conquest England.

• Tax collectorRelated: The survey helped the Norman government assess resources relevant to taxation.

• Alan RufusRelated: Its entries document the scale and distribution of Alan’s estates near the end of his life.

• Frederic William MaitlandRelated: Maitland used its evidence to investigate the structure of medieval English society.