Abstract
Various calculations of the population of late eleventh-century England have been made from Domesday Book, but scrutiny of a range of manorial entries suggests that it under-recorded an even larger number of people than has previously been estimated. Using documentary, field and artefactual evidence, a population of 2.5 million can be considered, which has consequences for estimates of the speed of its subsequent increase.
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