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| | Chester and the Domesday Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Chester, of course, was the hub of the whole county of Cheshire, in fact, the hub of the whole north west. |
 | | Gilbert was a palatine Baron to Hugh Lupus, held the barony of Kinderton in Cheshire. |
 | | For those interested in their local surnames in Cheshire, Lancashire, Wales and the north west you will notice that some well known surnames of Cheshire are already beginning in the Domesday Book to appear amongst the landholders such as Cook, Venables, Hunter, Mallbank or Millbank, Vernon, Burcy, Massey and Brassey(ie). |
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