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Many large manors in Domesday contain sub-manors within them. No definition of sub-manors can be entirely consistent but, in general, all units within a manor for which separate ownership and statistics were recorded may be considered a sub-manor, the only exception being anonymous holdings for which the only statistic supplied was the assessment of the holding.
The existence of sub-manors is often an indication that the manor concerned incorporated more than a single vill, even where only the central vill is named. Such complex manors (as they are often called) could encompass entire Hundreds or many square miles of countryside.
H.C. Darby, Domesday England (1977), analyses the problems posed by unnamed components of manors. The most detailed exploration of complex manors is in the many articles by Granville Jones; see especially, G.R.J. Jones, 'The portrayal of land settlement in Domesday Book', Domesday studies, edited by J.C. Holt (1987), pages 183-200.
See also codes for manors.