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Little Domesday

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Little Domesday is the more detailed, unabbreviated return of a survey of English lands and landholdings ordered by William I around 1086. This survey, known as the Domesday Book, was an administrative feat of the Middle Ages. Little Domesday specifically contains the full records for Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, as these were never summarized into the main volume, Great Domesday. The survey detailed estates, their dimensions, agricultural capacity, and value, serving as a crucial historical starting point for most English villages and towns.12

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