Online Editions of Domesday
Commercial copies
There are two main suppliers of commercial copies of Domesday, Domesday extracts.co.uk and The National Archives in London. Domesday extracts.co.uk provides six page extracts of the book for any town or village named. The National Archives will provide a PDF file of any page of the Domesday Book for a fee. These copies on request have been likened to the previous work done by scribes in legal disputes in the Middle Ages.
The Domesday Explorer
The Domesday Explorer is made up of the entire Domesday Book in database form. It was built by Professor John Palmer and his son Matthew at the University of Hull using Microsoft Access as the platform between 1986 and 2008. The project was founded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council grant of £250 000 and is now available to the public free of charge from the University of Essex online data store.
The Explorer is a fully searchable data base and also includes stock charts of all the livestock in England in 1086 and statistics reports on each county of the survey. These were produced by Professor Palmer using the work of previous Domesday experts such as Ellis, Maitland and Finn.
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