The initial detailed summary of the Domesday survey returns from the Domesday circuit of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, which was used to compile the parts of the Great Domesday Book relating to those counties.

The record of two Norman surveys of the city of Winchester from the first half of the 12th century.

plural of Domesday Book

(historical) The Book of Winchester; the principal record of the Domesday survey of England carried out in 1086 for William the Conqueror, comprising of two volumes: the Great Domesday Book and the Little Domesday Book.

(usually in the plural) One of the volumes of the Domesday Book. / (figuratively) A record of any other Norman survey.

One of the two volumes comprising the Domesday Book, being a record of the Domesday survey returns from Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk; in a similar format to the detailed survey summaries used to compile the Great Domesday Book, such as the Exon Domesday, but no corresponding entries were ever made in Great Domesday.

One of the two volumes comprising the Domesday Book, being a record of the Domesday survey returns from Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, parts of Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Kent, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire, as well as parts of North Wales.