The place-names found in the Domesday Book are township and estate names, and may include other villages and hamlets that receive no specific mention in the text; for example, the Domesday entry ...

Also, the Domesday Book does not list every single location in the country. For example, Winchester and London, two of the largest cities in England at the time, as well as areas of the north east ...

The Domesday Book is a record of landholding in England ... It may be that the lot of many peasants after the conquest is an example of downward social mobility. The surveyors also recorded ...