Offton
Videos
Offton is a village in Suffolk, England. The name is derived from the Old English "Offas farm/settlement", suggesting a potential Anglo-Saxon origin for the settlement, if not earlier.
Offton village sign
Domesday Book
Videos
Domesday Book is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by the Lati
Offton
…The name is derived from the Old English "Offas farm/settlement", suggesting a potential Anglo-Saxon origin for the settlement, if not earlier. The Domesday survey records four landholders in the village in 1086, including estates in the possession of William I and Roger Bigod. Between the four, there were 25…
Domesday Book: an engraving published in 1900. Great Domesday (the larger volume) and Little Domesday (the smaller volume), in their 1869 bindings, lie on their older "Tudor" bindings.
Great Domesday in its "Tudor" binding: a wood-engraving of the 1860s
The Domesday Chest, the German-style iron-bound chest of c. 1500 in which Domesday Book was kept in the 17th and 18th centuries
Entries for Croydon and Cheam, Surrey, in the 1783 printed edition of Domesday Book