HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



DOMESDAY MAP 



NOTES TO DOMESDAY MAP 



(Compiled by J. HORACE ROUND. M.A.t 



In this Map those manors in which the 

 King had an interest have a scarlet line undei 

 them ; a blue line is under those in which the 

 chief ecclesiastical tenant, namely, Peterborough 

 Abbey, held land ; a green line denotes those 

 in which land was held by the greatest lay 

 tenant, Robert, Count of Morlam, half-brother 

 to the Conqueror. 



The Hundreds existing at the time of 

 Domesday have been reconstructed, so far 

 as possible, with the help of " The North- 

 amptonshire Survey"of the i2th century. In 

 Domesday itself the rubrication (indicating 

 the names of the Hundreds to which the 

 manors belong) is loo imperfect for the purpose. 



It should be remembered that the Domes- 

 day names, both of Hundreds and of manors 

 vary much, and that only one variant can be 

 given in each instance on the map, 



It should also be observed that the bound- 

 aries of the county are, for uniformity and 

 convenience of reference, depicted as they now 

 stand. But, in 1086, "Northamptonshire" 

 comprised the south-eastern portion of what 

 is now Rutland, and the Domesday survey of 

 that portion is scattered accordingly throughout 

 the survey of Northamptonshire. The modern 

 names of the rivers are given for the same 

 reason as above ; they are not mentioned in 

 Domesday. 



The influence of the forests and the fen 

 district on the density of the place-names and 

 the size of the Hundreds is seen, to a certain 

 extent, on the map. 



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