Archaic English & Medival Towns
MPER...@uriacc.uri.edu
At the library here at URI, I recently discovered a version of the Domesday
Book called "The Domesday Book: England's Heritage" or something like that. It
lists, by county every village (hundred) with modern and medival names of the
place, major land holders (then) and other notes (like surviving sites, and
misc. info). For example, when researching my name, I found that
Northampton was a town known for boot and shoe making *shrug* and was called
Hamtone or Northamtone in period.
Query: The map I have of medival England showing the locations of various
hundreds has a few 'not shown' places listed. Does anybody have info or a
similar map that can help me fill in these gaps?
Farewell
Michael Perry | Lord Kenric of Northampton, ()/\
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Tony Jebson
> Query- The map I have of medival England showing the locations of various
> hundreds has a few 'not shown' places listed. Does anybody have info or a
> similar map that can help me fill in these gaps?
Phillimore & Co publish an edition of the Domesday Book (on a county by
county basis) in Latin (facsimile) with an English translation which
includes maps showing the places in each Hundred. I have got the volume
on Cheshire but it's at home... full reference tomorrow!
Tony
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Tony Jebson
> Query- The map I have of medival England showing the locations of various
> hundreds has a few 'not shown' places listed. Does anybody have info or a
> similar map that can help me fill in these gaps?
to which I replied:
> Phillimore & Co publish an edition of the Domesday Book (on a county by
> county basis) in Latin (facsimile) with an English translation which
> includes maps showing the places in each Hundred. I have got the volume
> on Cheshire but it's at home... full reference tomorrow!
As promised, a full reference:
This is a *pain*... its the only book I've seen which doesn't have a nice
library catalogue summary at the start!
The Domesday book is published as a set of 34 volumes (I have *one* of
them--Cheshire) in the "History from the Sources" series of books by
Phillimore & Co, Shopwyke Hall, Chichester, Sussex.
As stated before, it is a bilingual edition, with a Latin facsimile (of
the 1783 Latin edition from Fairley who reproduced the MS almost exactly
using special fonts, etc) on one page, and an English translation on the
facing page.
Unfortunately the facsimile is >>FULL<< of abbreviations which aren't
described! To read the Latin you need a book on Paleography (e.g Latin
Paleography, by Bernhard Bischoff, ISBN 0 521 36726 3---see appendix B.III)
The volumes are:
1 Kent
2 Sussex
3 Surrey
4 Hampshire
5 Berkshire
6 Wiltshire
7 Dorset
8 Somerset
9 Devon
10 Cornwall
11 Middlesex
12 Hertfordshire
13 Buckinghamshire
14 Oxfordshire
15 Gloucestershire
16 Worcestershire
17 Herefordshire
18 Cambridgeshire
19 Huntingdonshire
20 Bedfordshire
21 Northamptonshire
22 Leicestershire
23 Warwickshire
24 Staffordshire
25 Shropshire
26 Cheshire ISBN 0 85033 140 4
27 Derbyshire
28 Nottinghamshire
29 Rutland
30 Yorkshire
31 Lincolnshire + Claims: Yorkshire, Lincolnshire + Yorkshire, summary
32 Essex
33 Norfolk
34 Suffolk
Each volume is about 1/2 an inch thick and approx. 10 pounds Sterling! Which
is why I only have one volume---where I live.