The Winton Domesday or ''Liber Winton'' is a 12th-century English administrative document recording the landholdings in the city of

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together with their tenants and the rents and services due from them. The city is not included in the survivng evidence of

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in 1086; whether the town was surveyed and the evidence no longer survives is unclear. The manuscript brings together the returns from two different "satellite" surveys. The first was carried out for King

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in ''c''. 1110 (1103 x 1115) and covered the royal holdings in Winchester, describing conditions before and after the

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. This part draws on an earlier survey, now lost, made in ''c''. 1057, during the reign of

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. The second survey, which covered the entire town, was conducted for

Henry of Blois Henry of Blois ( c. 1096 8 August 1171), often known as Henry of Winchester, was Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey from 1126, and Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to his death. He was a younger son of Stephen Henry, Count of Blois by Adela of Normandy, da ...

, bishop of Winchester, in 1148.

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*Barlow, F. (ed.), "The Winton Domesday" in ''Winchester in the Early Middle Ages: an Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday'', ed. M. Biddle (Winchester Studies no. 1. Oxford, 1976) pp. 1–142 * Ellis, Henry (ed.), "Liber Winton" in ''Liber censualis vocati Domesday Book'' 4, ed. H. Ellis (Record Commission, 1816) pp. 529–62

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