NOTE TO DOMESDAY MAP 



COMPILED BY F. M. STENTON, B.A. 



In this map those manors in which the king had an interest have a 

 red line under them ; a blue line denotes those in which the chief 

 ecclesiastical tenant, the abbot of Burton, held land ; those which be- 

 longed to the chief lay tenant, Henry de Ferrers, are distinguished by a 

 green line. 



With reference to the king's estates, which figure so largely on 

 the map, a distinction should be made between the manors of the 

 south and east, which have no remarkable features, and the very inter- 

 esting group of manors which extends in a slightly broken series from 

 Ashbourne to the Yorkshire border. Each manor here consists of a 

 single village and a number of tributary hamlets (berewicks), the group 

 being assessed as a whole to the Danegeld and in combination with 

 other similar groups paying a rent to the king as landlord. Such an 

 arrangement seems to bear marks of antiquity, and the enumeration in 

 Domesday of all the ' berewicks ' of each manor has influenced the 

 map very considerably. 



So few relevant headings are given in Domesday that no attempt 

 can be made to distinguish the wapentakes on the map. In two in- 

 stances, 'Hammenstan' and 'Walecros,' the Domesday name, which 

 possibly represents a primitive meeting place, has since been replaced 

 by the name of a village, for ' Hammenstan ' wapentake seems to stand 

 for the modern wapentake of Wirksworth, and 'Walecros' wapen- 

 take for that of Repton and Gresley. Defective as the rubrication is it 

 yet contains a single reference to a 'hundred' of Sawley. This by it- 

 self is unintelligible, but we know that in Leicestershire the wapentakes 

 were divided into a number of small groups called ' hundreds ' with 

 the probable object of securing the accurate distribution of the 

 Danegeld ; there are distinct traces of such a system in Nottinghamshire, 

 and seeing that Sawley stands at the point where the Nottingham 

 and Leicester county boundaries meet that of Derbyshire the case of 

 Sawley hundred may safely be taken as indicating the existence of a 

 similar arrangement in the latter county. 



The county boundary given is that which existed previous to 1897. 

 River names also are given in their modern form. 



