There were 31 counties in Great Domesday if Rutland is accepted as a separate county, 3 in Little Domesday. What were to become the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and north Lancashire were included in the Yorkshire folios, while south Lancashire was appended to Cheshire. In addition, there were separate sections for Claims appended to Huntingdon, Lincoln and Yorkshire, and a kind of index to the Domesday account of Yorkshire known as the Yorkshire Summary. Finally, a late addition to the text for Yorkshire, made after 1113, details the fief granted then to Robert Brus, composed of manors which had belonged to other landowners in 1086. These counties and special sections and their codes are set out below in the order of the Domesday folios, the blank lines indicating changes of circuit: KEN: Kent SUS: Sussex SUR: Surrey HAM: Hampshire BRK: Berkshire
WIL: Wiltshire DOR: Dorset SOM: Somerset DEV: Devon CON: Cornwall MDX: Middlesex HRT: Hertfordshire BUK: Buckinghamshire OXF: Oxfordshire GLS: Gloucestershire WOR: Worcestershire HEF: Herefordshire CAM: Cambridgeshire HUN: Huntingdonshire HC: Huntingdonshire Claims BDF: Bedfordshire NTH: Northamptonshire LEC: Leicestershire WAR: Warwickshire STS: Staffordshire SHR: Shropshire CHS: Cheshire DBY: Derbyshire NTT: Nottinghamshire RUT: Rutland YKS: Yorkshire LIN: Lincolnshire YC: Yorkshire Claims LC: Lincolnshire Claims YS: Yorkshire Summary ESS: Essex NFK: Norfolk SUF: Suffolk For the use of codes in searching the text, see properties and property searching. |
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