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Borough Flour Mills: Historic

BBC News 20 Mar 2025
A historic mill and warehouse which has become a "sad eyesore" could be redeveloped ... The site has a long history of milling and it is possibly the site where two mills were recorded in the Domesday Book ... .
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Medieval ring found by Norfolk detectorist could make £18k

BBC News 11 Mar 2025
"The village of Shipdham was well established by the time of the Norman Conquest, extensively detailed in the Domesday Book of 1086, and at that time recorded as being within the largest 20% of settlements in England ... .
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Extremely rare Medieval 'bishop's ring' found in a muddy Norfolk field is set to fetch ...

The Daily Mail 10 Mar 2025
Mark Sell was searching a muddy field in the historic Norfolk village of Shipdham when he made the stunning find ... Shipdham was a well established settlement by the time of the Norman Conquest and extensively detailed in the Domesday Book of 1086 ... .
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Xiaolu Guo: ‘Write less, in order to write stronger’

The Observer 09 Mar 2025
Tolstoy became a vegetarian at 50, after eating 50 years of Russian sausage and Russian meat! Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Domesday Book to write My Battle of Hastings was part of a ...
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King Charles buys house next door to Camilla's Wiltshire bolthole for £3million... to stop it ...

The Daily Mail 09 Mar 2025
It was booked up throughout last year and gave tourists from Europe, the US and ... The Old Mill dates from the Norman Conquest while the nearby village of Lacock is recorded in the Domesday Book.
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Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales

The Observer 03 Mar 2025
Pennycook said ... Freehold was used in the Domesday Book, you know, the concept of leasing goes back to serfs being able to work a plot of land. “This arrangement has been in place for centuries and is essentially, in some ways, unchanged ... Read more ... .
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