For The Record

Domesday Book is one of England’s earliest surviving public records, and the foundation document of The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom. You can now search and download images of Domesday online. Learn how and why Domesday was created, the differences between Great and Little Domesday and how to interpret the book in Discover Domesday guide. Read about the people, the landscape and the life in towns and villages in eleventh century England, and the rich landscape William the Conqueror inherited.