Domesday- discover history of the city

Domesdayextracts is a website, which provides you the distant past of the village or city you live in with the help of the Domesday Book. The book contains the most valuable records of the United Kingdom’s history. The book is handwritten and the book was written in 1086 by Williams. The purpose of writing this book was to take the survey of the country’s wealth for the taxation purpose. It has the information about the ownership of lands, livestock and even the local traditions. The book helps us to know about the village or the city we lives in. We can now find the complete history of our city or the village. The complete distant past is available for you.

The Domesday Book will provide you the featuring information such as; it will display the original quality digital image of your town. The information regarding the land owners, local customs, disputes and many more will be given in modern English translation along with the translation given in the 11th century, which is shown in red color font. It will also give the glossary upto 5 pages which are used in the original book. It is in the PDF format, which can be taken to print as well as in A4 size paper.

There is an option given to you to search for the city or village you live in, just entering the name, will display the list of the city or villages available. Need to select the particular city or state by clicking on the link. Again a list of links will appear with different towns that are covered under that city along with the distance of that town from the city you mentioned. You can select any of the links. It will give basic information of that place and the book. The complete information along with the 5 pages glossary will be mailed to you at the cost of 12.95 pounds per copy, the copy will be provided to you in 2 working days from the date you ordered for it. Else money will be refunded back to you.

The Domesday Book was carefully scanned at the National Archives, which is available in London. The book is then completely translated with the help of team of academics into the modern English and accordingly prepared the index for the book which can help the reader to access complete information with ease. This website is going to help you to get complete past information about your city or village which is not available anywhere on the internet. And the information is completely true.