NOTE TO DOMESDAY MAP
Compiled by WILLIAM FARRER
In this map the names of places mentioned in Domesday are shown. Those marked ' were capital manors, having berewicks or dependent manors belonging to them. Those manors which had belonged to the king before 1066 have a line under their names; those which Tostig held before 1066 are distinguished with a broken line. In 1086 all the manors lying within the regions which afterwards formed the county of Lancaster were in the king's hand, except five manors between Cockerham and Lancaster.
The boundaries of hundreds and other territorial regions which existed at the date of Domesday have been constructed generally from the evidence of the survey itself, and differ from those which existed in 1212.[1] 'Kendal,' i.e. that part of Westmorland which lies in the valleys of the Kent and Lune, was included in Domesday with Furness, Cartmel, Lonsdale and Amounderness in a ratable area containing 500 carucates. Certain manors in Cumberland territorially connected with Furness and Cartmel, and others in the Ewcross wapentake of Yorkshire, similarly connected with Lonsdale, do not appear to have belonged to this geldable area.
For convenience of reference it is to be noted that five manors in 'Kendal,' viz.: Jalant (Yealand), Dalton, Hotun (Priest Hutton), Warton and Berewic (Borwick) were incorporated in the county of Lancaster about the end of the eleventh or early in the twelfth century, when 'Kendal' was added to Westmorland.
The modern names of rivers and lakes—including Marton mere in Amounderness and Martin mere to the south of the Ribble, both now reclaimed—are given for convenience of reference as landmarks; they are not—with the exception of the rivers Ribble and Mersey—mentioned in Domesday.
The sparsity of place names in south and east Lancashire was not entirely due to paucity of manors, but partly to the character of the survey, which sometimes omits the names of manors or berewicks dependent upon capital manors. Thus Domesday enumerates 15 manors in Newton hundred, 34 manors in Warrington hundred, 21 berewicks in Salford hundred, 28 manors in Blackburn hundred, and 12 manors in Leyland hundred, without recording their names. In North Lancashire, on the other hand, the areas which contain few or no names of manors were regions either of peatmoss, as in the northern part of Amounderness and near the coast between the rivers Kent and Winster; or moorland and wood, as in the north-east of Amounderness and between the upper waters of the Wyre and the valley of the Lune; or rocky fells and rough pasture, as in the mountainous parts of Kendal, Cartmel and Furness. The coast line is taken from the oldest Ordnance survey maps.
- ↑ Haigh is shown as belonging to the hundred of Warrington, Aspull as belonging to that of Salford.
