Tag: Domesday Book

• Laid Waste: the Harrying of the North

  

  Domesday Book called hundreds of northern places waste after William the Conqueror’s Harrying of the North. I mapped them: Yorkshire was worth 35% of its 1066 value, the waste climbed the hills rather than the roads to York, and its scar on today’s map is faint.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data visualisation, Domesday Book, Harrying of the North, history, Lancashire, maps, Norman Conquest, Yorkshire

• Ford or Bridge?

  

  Oxford waded, Cambridge built. I set every ford and bridge place-name in Britain against the 2021 census and small-area income: ford towns hold 2.6 times the people, and the typical ford place is a little richer per household too.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Census 2021, data visualisation, Domesday Book, history, maps, open data, place-names, rivers

• The Conquest in Castles

  

  I mapped 3,288 Norman-type castle sites across Britain. Only 113 carry a date from 1066 to 1199, and they show a castle frontier that leapt across England within a few years of Hastings.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  castles, data visualisation, Domesday Book, history, maps, Norman Conquest, open data, Welsh Marches