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So, what is the domesday book and how did it become, in dr baxters words. Yet the domesday book is as much a national monument as the tower of london, said dr. Domesday book at the tower of london by ashbee, jeremy. Mandeville was a norman, from one of several places that were known as magna villa in the duchy of normandy. The tower of londons origins at the beginning of william the conquerors. After the norman invasion and conquest of england in 1066, the domesday book was commissioned in december 1085 by order of william the conqueror. Battle abbey battle, east sussex pevensey tower of london. The tower of london is one of the capitals most iconic landmarks credit. One of williams invention, or in this a creation, was the tower of london.

It was built as a home at the end of 1066 as part of the norman conquest of england. These included the modern communes of mannevillelagoupil and mannevillette. Domesday book states that william gave this castle and the area it controlled to the count of eu, a church benefactor and advisor to the king. Etheldredas church and grays inn were both established by the 15th century. The domesday book is englands first tax return and its oldest public record. Domesday book is a manuscript record of the great survey of much of england and parts of. The tower of london and the domesday doomsday book. The manuscript is held at the national archives at kew, london. Thanks to the domesday book we know much about england in the eleventh century. Tower hamlets predictably, the name refers to the hamlets and villages closest to the tower of london. The value of the survey lies in the vivid snapshot it provides of a country in the throes of traumatic change.

The domesday bookan extraordinary survey watchtower. Domesday, the earliest public record and perhaps the most famous book in english history, is to be lent to the british library for a landmark exhibition on the anglosaxons. The white tower was and still is the central tower of the castle. At christmas, 1085, whilst staying at goucester, william the conqueror decided to conduct a far ranging survey of his kingdom. There are no references to london, the largest city, although there are. A keen builder, he oversaw the construction of durham cathedral, the first stone london bridge, westminster hall and most ironically a curtain wall around the tower of london. In 1067, william started building the tower of london, the great fortress. William needed to raise taxes to pay for his army and so a survey was set in motion to assess the wealth and and assets of his subjects throughout the land. Geoffrey martin, keeper of the public records, at the london exhibition. All public areas of the tower of london including the white tower, bloody tower and battlements. Tickets and prices tower of london historic royal palaces. Domesday book lent to british library for anglosaxon exhibition. Your tower of london admission ticket gives you entry to.