The Domesday Book - compiled in 1085-6 - is one of the ... and recently renamed the National Archives. The official who wrote Dialogue of the Exchequer in 1179 wrote that 'just as the sentence ...

Here are some of the Old English names for places around Stevenage and North Herts: Stevenage is thought to derive from an Old English word meaning ' (place at) the stiff oak'. The name was recorded ...

The Domesday Book is The National Archives' oldest and most famous public record. It is a highly detailed survey and valuation of all the land held by the king, William the Conqueror, and his ...

To do this, he sent out his supporters to survey the country. This detailed record of England was called the Domesday Book. It gives historians a great source of information to find out what life ...