Domesday Eversholt

Eversholt was metioned in the Domesday Book.

The original book is hard to understand, but various transcripts exist. Here are two – I hope they agree!


A Digest of the Domesday of Bedfordshire by William Airy was published in 1881. Much thanks to archive.org for putting it online.

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Quarto memoirs, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society from 1922 is out of copyright and transcribed the data. Thanks to archive.org for putting it online!

Here are the entries for Eversholt: (click for larger versions)

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Here are the notes that explain what those various columns mean:

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Plus there is this additional note:

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