Great Domesday Book

Meanings

1. One of the two volumes comprising the Domesday Book, being a record of the Domesday survey returns from Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, parts of Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Kent, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire, as well as parts of North Wales.