The Domesday Book

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You are going to use this hyperlink on the DOMESDAY BOOK

1. Using the online lesson please work through the tasks and answer the questions below in full sentences in your exercise books:

What is a shire?

What did William want to find out?

What sort of items did the Domesday book record?

What is a reeve?

Why had the value of land in Lincoln gone down?

Write a few sentences summarising what the Domesday book is and why it has this strange title.

2. When you have finished the lesson you could try the Test section.

3. You are going to create a table like the one below. Use the sheet called ‘Local Domesday Entries’ to get the information about the villages and Lincoln itself.

To make the chart open a Word document.

Write your name and then put the title: A Table to show Local Domesday Entries.

Then click on the Table icon on the menu bar.

Select the Insert option and Table.

Click on Table.

Change the number of columns to 7 and rows to 7.

Then click on OK.

The table should appear in your document and you can begin to fill it in as below.

You can change the font and its size.

Do not forget to save your work. Now print your document.

This task is to be finished for homework:

Village	Number of People	Number of ploughs	Is there a church?	Area of Land	Is there any industry?	Value in 1086
Sleaford	50	18	Yes	12	Yes	£25
Silk Willoughby
Swarby
Aswarby
Folkingham
Quarrington

WHAT HAVE YOU ACHIEVED?

You now know a lot about the local area in 1086 and how to create a table in Word.

 Well Done!

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