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A question about The Domesday Book...

A Box Of Books

The Norman kings carried the Domesday Book with them wherever they went in a special chest with three keys.

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There is a special chest for the Domesday Book, but it was normally kept with other important royal documents at the royal court in Winchester or Westminster. Today the books and the chest are kept at the National Records Office at Kew.

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