The newly-computerised Norfolk section of the Manorial Documents Register
was launched today at Norfolk Record Office, and is now available online.
The MDR, which is maintained by the Historical Manuscripts Commission on
behalf of the Master of the Rolls, is being progressively revised and
computerised on a county by county basis. Work on the Welsh, Yorkshire,
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight sections of the MDR has already been
completed, and a project to computerise the Surrey and Middlesex sections,
led by Royal Holloway, University of London, in partnership with Surrey
History Centre, London Metropolitan Archives and HMC, is now under way. The
Norfolk project was undertaken by HMC in partnership with Norfolk Record
Office.
The online Norfolk MDR can be accessed at www.hmc.gov.uk/mdr. It contains
approximately 14,000 separate index entries for records dating from the
thirteenth to the twentieth century, and its detailed search options allow
for searches to be made by manor, parish, honour, date, repository or
document type.
Further information about the project and the MDR can be obtained from
Andrew Rowley or John Gurney at [log in to unmask]
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