NOTE TO DOMESDAY MAP 



COMPILED BY BENJAMIN WALKER, A.R.I.B.A. 



On the accompanying map the manors held by the king are 

 shown by red capitals ; those held by the chief ecclesiastical 

 tenant, the abbey of Coventry, by red small type ; and those 

 held by the chief lay tenant, the Count of Meulan, by black 

 capitals. The asterisk against some of the abbey's manors 

 indicates that the Count of Meulan also had an interest there. 



For the sake of uniformity and convenience of reference the 

 modern boundaries of the county are given. These probably 

 differ but little from those in Domesday times except in the 

 extreme south, where the parish of Little Compton, formerly 

 belonging to Gloucestershire, has been transferred to Warwick- 

 shire. Neither the rivers nor the three great ancient ways, 

 the Watling Street, the Fosse Way, and the Icknield Street, are 

 mentioned in the Survey, but they are so necessary to the under- 

 standing of the map that they have been added. 



The general positions of the ten hundreds into which the 

 county was divided in Domesday times are shown upon the map ; 

 but as the rubrication of the Survey is not sufficiently accurate to 

 enable them to be reconstructed with certainty, no attempt has 

 been made to indicate their boundaries. 



In those cases where Domesday Book records a name in two 

 or more different forms only one of the variants can be given on 

 the map. 



The natural characteristics of the district are well shown by 

 the varying density of the names upon the map. This density 

 is greatest in the fertile valleys of the Arrow and the Avon, and 

 least in the forest district of the Arden in the west and north- 

 west of the county. 



In fixing the position of manors the church has been the guide. 

 The manors of Rincele and Werlavescote are not marked on 

 the map, as their positions could not be identified. 



