Nearly a millennium ago, in 1086, the new Norman rulers of England took
on the ...(1)... task of a complete ...(2)... of the country.
The purpose of the survey was to make a record of how many people lived
in each place, what ...(3)... there were, who owned them and how
valuable they were. A lot of people disliked the level of detail of what
was recorded, because they realised that the survey would be used as the
basis for ...(4)... . As one writer at the time put it: "Not one piece
of land, not even one ox, nor one cow, nor one pig escaped notice in the
survey." So ...(5)... was the survey that the king sent a second
set of surveyors to check the results ...(6)... in by the first set.
The record they created has come to be known as the Domesday Book. This
has nothing to do with ‘doom’. The Old English word ‘dom’ meant authority
or judgement. ...(7)... entry in the book for a village would
say :" 48 villagers with 15 ploughs, 2 mills, 14 acres of meadow and woodland
with 100 pigs. Value 16 pounds". Birmingham in 1086 didn’t take much of
the surveyors’ time. It was ...(8)... at 1 pound.
Links for more information The Domesday book online
1: Choose a word
1: he normed us
1: enormous
1: erroneous
2: Choose a word
2: sensors
2: send us
2: census
3: Choose a word
3: resources
3: resourced
3: resource
4: Choose a word
4: taxis
4: taxes
4: tacks
5: Choose a word
5: through
5: tough
5: thorough
6: Choose a word
6: brought
6: bought
6: bored
7: Choose a word
7: pinnacle
7: typical
7: cynical
8: Choose a word
8: val hued
8: vaulted
8: valued
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