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There were 31 counties in Great Domesday if Rutland is accepted as a separate county.
What were to become the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, 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 belowIn the order of the Domesday folios, reading the left-hand columns first:
KEN Kent HUN Huntingdonshire
SUS Sussex HC Huntingdonshire Claims
SUR Surrey BDF Bedfordshire
HAM Hampshire NTH Northamptonshire
BRK Berkshire LEC Leicestershire
WIL Wiltshire WAR Warwickshire
DOR Dorset STS Staffordshire
SOM Somerset SHR Shropshire
DEV Devon CHS Cheshire
CON Cornwall DBY Derbyshire
MDX Middlesex NTT Nottinghamshire
HRT Hertfordshire RUT Rutland
BUK Buckinghamshire YKS Yorkshire
OXF Oxfordshire YB Yorkshire: Bruce fief
GLS Gloucestershire LIN Lincolnshire
WOR Worcestershire YC Yorkshire Claims
HEF Herefordshire LC Lincolnshire Claims
CAM Cambridgeshire YS Yorkshire Summary
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