Quarto memoirs volume 1

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Contents:

‘Bedfordshire in 1086: an analysis and synthesis of Domesday Book,’ by G. Herbert Fowler

This book presents a detailed analysis of land holdings and their fiscal value in the Domesday assessment. It considers the ‘social fabric’ of Norman and Anglo-Saxon society, from the royal demesne to the Saxon tillers of the soil. The maps show the hundreds in 1086; Norman and Saxon estates; meadowland; woodland; water mills; areas of devastation indicating the probable route of the Norman invasion; and socland in Edward the Confessor’s time.

About the author(s)

G. Herbert Fowler (22)

Dr G. Herbert Fowler (1861-1940) was a zoologist working in London before he retired to Bedfordshire, where he became a county councillor and chairman of the county’s Records Committee in 1913. He immediately reformed the existing record room, established standard procedures and ran it as a public service, the first in the country. He was a founder member of BHRS in 1912 and its Secretary, General Editor and principal contributor to the annual volumes until his death. He also published extensively on sources in Buckinghamshire and elsewhere.

Reviews

‘The present position in Domesday studies has been cogently put by G. Herbert Fowler, who agreed with Maitland that in this part of England the teamland is best represented by 120 acres with a rather elastic boundary capable of some expansion or contraction as needed’ – A. C. Chibnall, Sherington: fiefs and fields of a Buckinghamshire village (1965), p. 88 note 2.

Publication details

Bedfordshire in 1086: an analysis and synthesis of Domesday Book, by G. Herbert Fowler. Aspley Guise, BHRS, 1922. iv, 118p, 9 maps, 8 pedigrees on p109-12. Quarto memoirs, volume 1.

The book has been digitised and is available on the Internet Archive site. The Bedfordshire Historical Record Society did not commission nor undertake the work and is not responsible for the content nor quality of digitisation of this volume.

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Keywords

Domesday Book (4)

hundreds (4)

maps (22)

pedigrees (18)

Time period

1040-1086