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 NOTES TO DOMESDAY MAP (Compiled by F. M. Stenton, M.A.) This map is based upon the index to the Ordnance Survey of Rutland. Most of the place-names assigned by Domes- day to this district have existing representatives, but two have disappeared : 'Smelistone,' where the Bishop of Lincoln had an estate ; and tile Alstoe manor of ' Alestanestorp ' (see Introduction). So late as the beginning of the 17th century, however, both these villages were in being, and they are contained in Speed's Survey of 1610, from which their position has been calculated for the present map. In esti- mating the amount of land owned by the King in 1086, it must be remembered that he possessed the whole of Martinsley Wapentake in demesne ; and that the blank space on the west of the map is due to the omission from Domesday of the berewicks which belonged to the royal manors of Oakiiam, Hambledon, and Riiilington. Th.ere were few church lands in Rutland at this date, and the single Peterborough manor of Tinwell exceeded the joint assess- ment of the Bishop of Lincoln's lands in Liddington and Essendine and of the Bishop of Durham's estate at Horn. Sub-divisions of the District 1. Alstoe Wapentake 3. 'Wiccslei ' Hundred 2. Martinsley Wapentake (in Northamptonshire)