The Winton Domesday or Liber Winton is a 12th-century English administrative document which records the landholdings in the city of Winchester

Winchester

Winchester is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, and is located at the western end of the South Downs, along the course of...

 together with their tenants and the rents and services due from them. The city was not included in the surveys which produced Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 in 1086. The manuscript brings together the returns from two different "satellite" surveys. The first survey was carried out for King Henry I

Henry I of England

Henry I was the fourth son of William I of England. He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106...

 in c. 1110 (1103 x 1115) and covered the royal holdings in Winchester, describing conditions before and after the Conquest. This part also draws on an earlier survey, now lost, made in c. 1057, during the reign of Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor also known as St. Edward the Confessor , son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066....

. The second survey, which covered the entire town, was done for Bishop Henry of Blois

Henry of Blois

Henry of Blois , often known as Henry of Winchester, was Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey from 1126, and Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to his death.-Early life and education:...

 in 1148.

Editions

• 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

Further reading

• Biddle, Martin (ed.). Winchester in the Early Middle Ages. An Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday. Winchester Studies no. 1. Oxford, 1976.