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The Domesday Book surveyed land ownership in Norman England

William the Conqueror commissioned a comprehensive tax survey of England in 1086

In 1086, King William I ordered royal commissioners to audit landholdings, livestock, population numbers, and financial values across English shires. Compiled into the Domesday Book, the unprecedented administrative survey enabled precise royal taxation and recorded local English society following the Norman conquest.

Domesday Book entry — Professor John Palmer and George Slater · CC BY-SA 3.0 · licence · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: William the Conqueror commissioned a comprehensive tax survey of England in 1086. The figure is taken from The National Archives, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a history fact?: Yes. It sits on the History shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.