Abstract

Settletnent, land use and Dotnesday ploughlands Nick Higham The statement that there is land for so many ploughs, labelled them that category of information in or so many oxen (or a variant thereof), is one of the Domesday Book most characterised by variability, commonest classes of information incorporated in from one fief to another, from hundred to hundred, the Domesday records, even despite such entries county to county and circuit to circuit. So variable being rare along the Welsh Marches and frequently did this information seem to Professor Darby that, incomplete in the South-East. Although the several although he discussed the distribution of the various formulae have an apparently simple meaning, formulae, he felt unable to rely upon ploughland interpretation of this information has been amongst figures to provide a consistent picture of the the more intractable and divisive problems facing available arable land throughout all England in 1086. He therefore omitted the bulk of what might Domesday scholarship for over a century. A new of debate and publication based on the otherwise have been statistically feasible from his spate Domesday texts coincided with the ninth centenary multiple-volume Domesday Geograp/Yy (Darby & of the initial survey but no consensus