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Sampford Peverell in the Domesday Book

Sampford, or Sanforda (it became Sampford Peverell later when it belonged to the Peverell family) is included in the Exon Domesday book.  The Exon Domesday was one of the many local surveys undertaken in 1086, which were used to compile the national Domesday Book.  The Exon Domesday is the only one of these surveys to survive, and on a visit to the Exeter Cathedral Archives in October 2017 a group from the Sampford Peverell Society was lucky enough to be shown the page about the village.  This is a photo of it, with the Exeter Cathedral Archives' translation:
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This is the reference to Sampford in the national Domesday Book of 1086, with the translation below it.
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