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Of Hardhorn, Newton, and Staining, only the last name is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

The Domesday Book records that the manor of Fordingbridge possessed a church and two mills, and was rented at 14s 2d.

The other lady, walking along the back of the jetty, is oblivious to everything other than the book in which she is

Of the three arches at the north end, the central one leads to the chapter house, whilst those on either side were book cupboards where the abbey library was housed.

By the 1880s the shoeblack societies had four hundred boys on their books. A number were given cheap board and lodging.

Around this time the former classics teacher of the town's high school, Miss Richmal Crompton, was famed for being the author of the Just William books.

The name 'Leece' refers to a woodland clearing; in the Domesday Book it is recorded as land held for the king.

The name of this Sussex town was mentioned in a Saxon charter, though for some reason it is not referred to in the Domesday Book.

This picturesque village featured in Anna Lea Merritt's book 'A Hamlet in Old Hampshire', published in 1902, describing 19th-century village life.

The village of Rushton is mentioned as Riston or Risetone in the Domesday Book.

Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the present building dates from the fifteenth century.

elegant Georgian house on the right of the road has been converted to offices.To the right of it is the entrance to Botley Mills, an 18th-century mill complex, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book

The views in this book concentrate on this mostly red brick and slate element of the town's architectural history.

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

Two kiosks at the entrance to the pier used to take bookings for cruises and shows. On the right of the pier are two of the town's hotels, The Antwerp and The Clarendon.

Mortons were selling 'K' shoes and next door is now the home of One Tree Books. The suspended electric street light was one of Petersfield's first.

This street's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'cepin', meaning a 'place of trade', and here its shops include opticians, tobacconists, dry cleaners, book and toy shops and the Crusty Loaf bakers with its

This is now the Rashleigh Arms, named after the family who still own the village and live at nearby Menabilly House, immortalised as Manderley by Daphne du Maurier in her book 'Rebecca'.

The words are first quoted in Thomas Fuller`s 1662 book Worthies of England.

He did much of his early oral history recording in the village; this formed the basis of many books, including 'Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay' in 1956.

He kept a 'little shanty' on the cliffs to which it was his habit to retire, to 'be alone with his books, his thoughts and with God'.

By the time of Domesday Book, 'Bexelei' was recorded as a small village, which had scarcely recovered from the Norman invasion.

As the hills are owned by Birmingham, it is reasonable to include the area in this book.