Modern Place Name Index

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Analysis of the Exon "Domesday” in Hundreds

Trans. Devon Assoc., vol. 35, (1903), pp. 662-712.

by

Rev. T.W. Whale

Prepared by Michael Steer

This paper was presented at the Association’s July 1903 Sidmouth meeting. A number of the Association’s Exon Domesday translation project-related research papers, of which this meticulous paper is an example, were produced as an aid to textual analysis by Committee members.  Rev Whale’s purpose was to reproduce the Domesday survey in an abridged manner that would aid and inform analysis. The result produced almost 50 pages of data in tabular form. These tables include the names of all towns, villages and even smaller settlements as they appear in the original Exon Domesday text, grouped by Hundred, together with an attempt by the author to relate the early names to their modern (present day) equivalent. The tables thus provide for the genealogist, an invaluable link between Devon’s ancient and present nomenclature. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.