NOTE TO DOMESDAY MAP 



COMPILED BY WILLIAM FARRER 



In this map the names of places mentioned in Domesday are 

 shown. Those marked * were capital manors, having berewicks or 

 dependent manors belonging to them. Those manors which had 

 belonged to the king before 1066 have a line under their names ; 

 those which Tostig held before 1066 are distinguished with a broken 

 line. In 1086 all the manors lying within the regions which after- 

 wards formed the county of Lancaster were in the king's hand, ex- 

 cept five manors between Cockerham and Lancaster. 



The boundaries of hundreds and other territorial regions which 

 existed at the date of Domesday have been constructed generally from 

 the evidence of the survey itself, and differ from those which existed 

 in I2I2. 1 'Kendal,' i.e. that part of Westmorland which lies in the 

 valleys of the Kent and Lune, was included in Domesday with Fur- 

 ness, Cartmel, Lonsdale and Amounderness in a ratable area con- 

 taining 500 carucates. Certain manors in Cumberland territorially 

 connected with Furness and Cartmel, and others in the Ewcross wapen- 

 take of Yorkshire, similarly connected with Lonsdale, do not appear to 

 have belonged to this geldable area. 



For convenience of reference it is to be noted that five manors 

 in 'Kendal,' viz.: Jalant (Yealand), Dalton, Hotun (Priest Hutton), 

 Warton and Berewic (Berwick) were incorporated in the county of 

 Lancaster about the end of the eleventh or early in the twelfth century, 

 when ' Kendal ' was added to Westmorland. 



The modern names of rivers and lakes including Marton mere 

 in Amounderness and Martin mere to the south of the Ribble, both 

 now reclaimed are given for convenience of reference as landmarks ; 

 they are not with the exception of the rivers Ribble and Mersey 

 mentioned in Domesday. 



The sparsity of place names in south and east Lancashire was 

 not entirely due to paucity of manors, but partly to the character of 

 the survey, which sometimes omits the names of manors or berewicks 

 dependent upon capital manors. Thus Domesday enumerates 15 

 manors in Newton hundred, 34 manors in Warrington hundred, 

 21 berewicks in Salford hundred, 28 manors in Blackburn hundred, 

 and 12 manors in Leyland hundred, without recording their names. 

 In North Lancashire, on the other hand, the areas which contain few or 

 no names of manors were regions either of peatmoss, as in the northern 

 part of Amounderness and near the coast between the rivers Kent 

 and Winster ; or moorland and wood, as in the north-east of Amoun- 

 derness and between the upper waters of the Wyre and the valley of 

 the Lune ; or rocky fells and rough pasture, as in the mountainous 

 parts of Kendal, Cartmel and Furness. The coast line is taken from 

 the oldest Ordnance survey maps. 



1 Haigh is shown as belonging to the hundred of Warrington, Aspull as 

 belonging to that of Salford. 



