ANTINGHAM MANOR

Identity: likely — The registry location and surviving court rolls, accounts, rentals and survey material consistently identify a substantial Antingham manorial complex. Local historical evidence distinguishes two medieval manors at Antingham and records that the secular manor granted to Roger Bigod and held by the de Antingham family later became known as the Manor of Antingham, Witchingham and Wallishes. Antingham Hall is a documented manor house in the parish and is the best surviving physical candidate for the principal manorial centre, although the available evidence does not conclusively prove that every registry record belongs exclusively to this particular manor rather than the other Antingham manor.
Representative point: 52.8410, 1.3474
Basis: documented_manor_house — Antingham Hall, North Walsham Road, Antingham, is a documented Grade II listed manor house. Historic England gives its National Grid Reference as TG 25494 32298; the coordinates supplied are an approximate WGS84 conversion of that reference.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence establishes the manor's location and historical identity but does not provide a sufficiently clear manor-specific perimeter. The surviving archival leads include courts, rentals, surveys, an extent and papers concerning enclosure of common at Antingham, but no accessible mapped estate plan or explicit parcel-by-parcel boundary was found. The parish boundary cannot safely be substituted for the manorial extent, particularly because the historical evidence confirms that Antingham contained at least two distinct manors.
Sources:
- Antingham Hall, Antingham - Historic England List Entry 1049894: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1049894 — Identifies Antingham Hall as a Grade II listed manor house in Antingham parish and supplies National Grid Reference TG 25494 32298.
- The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Antingham: History: https://media.acny.uk/media/venues/page/attachment/2019/11/20191123_Antingham_St_Mary_History.pdf — States that there were at least two manors in Antingham; identifies the Bigod/de Antingham manor and records its later name as the Manor of Antingham, Witchingham and Wallishes.
- Antingham Hall moat - The Gatehouse Record: https://gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/4586.html — Records a medieval moated site immediately associated with Antingham Hall, supporting the interpretation of the Hall area as a historic manorial centre.
- 1377-1391 court roll, Pet 583/1 - The National Archives Discovery: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14316538 — Archival lead for medieval court-roll material associated with the Antingham manor record.
- 1500-1600 survey book, MS 6036 - The National Archives Discovery: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14305403 — Archival lead for a survey book potentially relevant to reconstructing the manor's landholding, but no accessible boundary geometry was found.
- 1571-1572 extent, MS 6037 - The National Archives Discovery: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14266862 — Archival lead for an extent of the manor; the catalogue record alone does not expose a sufficiently detailed geographical perimeter.
- 1550 court papers relating to enclosure of common at Antingham, MS 6046 - The National Archives Discovery: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14298996 — Confirms historically relevant land and common-rights documentation at Antingham, but does not provide an accessible manor-specific polygon.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- Antingham historically contained at least two separate manors, so the generic name ANTINGHAM MANOR is not absolutely disambiguated by the public evidence alone.
- Antingham Hall is the best documented surviving manorial site, but the available sources do not conclusively demonstrate that it was the principal seat of the exact registry manor rather than the other Antingham manor.
- No historical manor-specific boundary polygon was returned; the modern parish boundary must not be treated as the manor boundary.