In what year was 'The Domesday Book' completed?
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Domesday Book of the Last Judgement, are unalterable. The manuscript is held at The National Archives at Kew, London. In 2011, the Open Domesday site made the manuscript available online. The book is an invaluable primary source for modern historians and historical economists. No survey approaching the scope and extent of Domesday Book was attempted again in Britain until the 1873 Return of Owners of Land (sometimes termed the "Modern Domesday") which presented the first complete, post-Domesday picture of the distribution of landed property in the British Isles. Domesday Book encompasses two independent works (in, originally, two physical volumes). These were "Little