Though invariably called Domesday Book, in the singular, it in fact consists of two volumes quite different from each other. From these documents the king’s clerks compiled a summary, which is Domesday Book.ĭomesday Book covers all of England except the northern areas. The survey was carried out, against great popular resentment, in 1086 by seven or eight panels of commissioners, each working in a separate group of counties, for which they compiled elaborate accounts of the estates of the king and of his tenants in chief (those who held their land by direct services to him). The survey, in the scope of its detail and the speed of its execution, was perhaps the most remarkable administrative accomplishment of the Middle Ages. By contemporaries the whole operation was known as “the description of England,” but the popular name Domesday-i.e., “doomsday,” when men face the record from which there is no appeal-was in general use by the mid-12th century.
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