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A Long and Illustrious History › The Middle Ages
What is the Doomsday Book more correctly known as?
- The Norman Census
- The Royal Register
- The Great Survey
- The Domesday Book
Why this is the correct answer
William the Conqueror's great survey of England completed in 1086 is properly known as the Domesday Book, though 'Doomsday Book' is an older spelling variant. It recorded landholdings and resources in remarkable detail and takes its name from the Old English word for 'judgement day' because its findings could not be appealed.