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.