Hull Domesday ProjectHull Domesday Project

Search this site
  • Home
  • News
  • Domesday Book
  • Domesday Explorer
  • AHRC Project
  • Research & Development Team
  • Downloads
  • Bibliography
  • Links

Navigation

  • Home
    • Domesday Facts & Fictions
    • Research & Development Team
      • Ellen Morgan
      • Frank and Caroline Thorn
      • Gary Baker
      • George Slater
      • John Palmer
      • Matt Palmer
      • Natasha Hodgson
      • Neil Goforth
      • Peter Thorn
    • The Hull Project
  • AHRC Project
    • AHRC Research Team
  • Bibliography
    • Alphabetical list of works
      • Alphabetical-listof works
      • bibliographies
      • primary sources
      • reference works
      • secondary sources
    • Domesday Book
      • bibliographies
      • Domesday Inquest
      • Domesday satellites
      • Domesday terminology
      • editions of Domesday Book
      • fundamental studies on Domesday Book
      • introductions to Domesday Book
      • reference
      • regional studies
      • Social and economic studies
        • Church
        • Crown and taxation
        • economy
        • lay aristocracy
        • minor landowners
        • peasantry
        • towns
        • warfare
        • women
      • textbooks on Domesday Book
    • Historical background
      • background sketches
      • collections of articles
      • monographs
      • serious introductions
      • standard histories
  • Domesday Book
    • Domesday Inquest
      • Articles of Inquiry
      • Book of Winchester
      • Cambridge Inquisition
      • Conversion tables
      • Domesday Monachorum
      • Domesday, or Doomsday
      • Ely Inquisition
      • Excerpta
      • Exeter Domesday
      • Inquest Procedure
      • Juries
      • Returns
      • Satellites
      • Writs
    • Great and Little Domesday
      • Date of Great Domesday
    • Purpose of Domesday Book
    • Structure of Domesday Book
      • Borough
      • Circuits
      • Claims
      • County
      • Customs
      • Fief
      • Hundred
      • Manor
      • Salt-works
      • Sub-manor
      • Vill
      • Wales
      • Wich
      • Yorkshire Summary
    • Terminology
      • Administrative units
        • Amounderness
        • Archenfield
        • between the Ribble and the Mersey
        • castlery
        • commote
        • Craven
        • Danelaw
        • Early administrative units
        • Holland
        • Isle of Wight
        • Kesteven
        • Land of Count Alan
        • Lathe
        • Lindsey
        • Mercia
        • New Forest
        • Rape
        • Riding
        • Rutland
        • shire
        • territory
        • vills, or village
        • Wales
        • Wapentake
        • Wessex
      • Borough & castle
        • boroughs
        • castles
        • industries
        • markets
        • salt
        • townspeople
      • Customary dues, payments & services
        • bodyguard
        • cartage
        • customary due
        • customs
        • death duty
        • defence obligations
        • escort
        • exaction
        • expedition
        • forfeitures
        • gift
        • guard penny
        • heriot
        • premium
        • presentations
        • relief
        • third penny
        • tribute
        • wardship
        • warnode
      • Landholding
        • as a manor
        • bookland
        • commendation
        • could go
        • could grant
        • could not go
        • could not grant
        • could not sell
        • could not withdraw
        • could sell
        • could withdraw
        • feudal
        • fiefs
        • freehold
        • freely
        • Honour
        • jointly
        • landholding concepts
        • parage
        • predecessor
        • reeveland
        • sergeant
        • subinfeudation
        • tenant-in-chief
        • tenure
        • tenurial
        • thaneland
        • tributary
        • vavassor
      • Manors
        • Appurtenances
        • B
        • barton
        • berewick, or outlier
        • demesne, or lordship
        • dependency, or member
        • enclosure, or hedged enclosure
        • entry
        • fisheries
        • fishponds
        • free jurisdiction
        • full jurisdiction
        • hall
        • holding
        • inland
        • jurisdiction, or sokeland
        • K
        • land, or terra
        • livestock
        • M
        • manor
        • meadow
        • mills
        • pasture
        • ploughs
        • R
        • Rq
        • S
        • sheep
        • T
        • T.R.E.
        • vineyard
        • warland
        • woodland
      • Money & values
        • assayed, blanched or white
        • assessment
        • at face value
        • mark
        • mint
        • moneyer
        • ora
        • penny
        • pounds
        • revenue
        • shilling
        • values
        • weighed
        • £ s d
      • Occupations & titles
        • almsman
        • almswoman
        • archer
        • artificer
        • baron
        • beadle
        • boatman
        • bowman, or crossbowman
        • bursar, or dispenser
        • butler
        • chamberlain
        • chancellor
        • commissioner
        • constable, or staller
        • deliverer
        • emissary
        • engineer
        • falconer
        • farmer
        • forester
        • Guard, or housecarl
        • gunner
        • huntsman
        • installer
        • interpreter
        • jester
        • man-at-arms
        • marshal
        • noble
        • reeve
        • registrar
        • sheriff
        • steersman
        • steward
        • thane
        • treasurer
        • usher
        • Young, or child
      • Peasantry
        • boor
        • bordar, or smallholder
        • cottager
        • Cottager
        • dreng
        • freedman
        • freeman
        • Freeman, or sokeman
        • peasants
        • ploughman, or oxman
        • rider, or riding man
        • serf, or slave
        • villager, or villein
      • Taxation
        • acre
        • answer for
        • bovate
        • carucate
        • Danegeld
        • exempt
        • furlong
        • hide
        • Land for, ploughland or teamland
        • plough, or plough team
        • quarter, or furlong
        • sulung
        • tax assessment
        • tax, or geld
        • virgate
        • waste
        • yoke
      • Weights & measures
        • acre
        • amber
        • arpent
        • bovate
        • carucate
        • early measures
        • furlong
        • hides
        • hoccus
        • league
        • perch
        • Ploughlands
        • quarter
        • rod
        • sester
        • stick
        • sulung
        • virgate
        • yoke
  • Domesday Explorer
    • Development Team
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Reviews
    • The electronic data
      • Domesday Explorer Coding
        • codes for administrative units
        • codes for boroughs
        • codes for circuits
        • codes for counties
        • codes for entries
        • codes for landowners
        • codes for manorial statistics
        • codes for manors
        • coding system
        • editorial codes
        • editorial conventions
      • The Phillimore Translation
      • Thematic codes
        • codes for changes in taxation
        • codes for legal matters
        • codes for manorial changes
        • codes for miscellaneous items
        • codes for tenures
    • Using Domesday Explorer
      • Browser pane
        • navigator window
        • searches window
      • Browsing Domesday Book
        • Caption bars
        • Filtering
        • Navigation
        • Zooming
      • Customising Domesday Explorer
        • configuring the software
        • customising the facsimile
        • customising the maps
        • customising the tables
        • customising the text
      • Exporting data to other programs
        • facsimile
        • maps
        • tables
        • text
      • Printing text
      • Saving and loading projects
      • Searching Domesday Book
        • basic searching
        • filtering
        • grouping search terms
        • inverting search results
        • limiting searches
        • phrase searching
        • properties and property searching
        • search forms and search results
        • searching for accented words
        • searching with search icons (Venn diagrams)
        • sounds-like searches
        • spans in searching
        • syntax restrictions
        • wildcards in searches
      • Tables
        • code table
        • Domesday entries table
        • images table
        • place-name forms table
        • places in each entry table
        • places index
        • places index references table
        • wordlist table
      • Viewer pane
        • facsimile view
        • map view
        • table view
        • text view
  • Downloads
    • Installing v1.1
  • Links
  • News
Domesday Explorer‎ > ‎The electronic data‎ > ‎

Domesday Explorer Coding

The structure of the coding system employed in Domesday Explorer, the editorial conventions employed, and the main groups of textual codes, are described in the following sections:
  • codes for administrative units.
  • codes for boroughs
  • codes for circuits
  • codes for counties
  • codes for entries
  • codes for landowners
  • codes for manorial statistics
  • codes for manors
  • coding system
  • editorial codes
  • editorial conventions
For the use of these codes for more sophisticated and powerful searching, see:
  • Properties and property searching.
  • Searching Domesday Book
See also thematic codes.
Subpages (11): codes for administrative units codes for boroughs codes for circuits codes for counties codes for entries codes for landowners codes for manorial statistics codes for manors coding system editorial codes editorial conventions
Comments

Sign in|Recent Site Activity|Report Abuse|Print Page|Powered By Google Sites