APPLEDORE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The Devon manor index identifies Appledore in Burlescombe as also known as Lymdrie and Sourappldore. Independent archaeological research identifies Appledore Barton, north of the village of Appledore, with the Domesday manor recorded as Suraple/Souraple, corresponding to the supplied historical name Sourappldore and the registry record.
Representative point: 50.9241, -3.3320
Basis: documented_manor_site — Appledore Barton, Burlescombe, is identified in archaeological research as the site of the Domesday manor of Suraple/Souraple. The coordinate is for the surviving Appledore Barton farmhouse and is a defensible representative point for the historical manor site.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The research located the manor and associated Appledore/Burlescombe historical identities, but did not locate a reliable manor map, survey, rental with mapped parcels, enclosure plan, or other source sufficient to reconstruct the historical manorial perimeter. The South Appledore tithing and modern Burlescombe parish boundaries cannot safely be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- GENUKI Devon Manors index: https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/DevonManors/list1 — Lists Appledore, or Lymdrie, or Sourappldore, in Burlescombe parish and Halberton hundred.
- Archaeological monitoring and recording at Appledore Barton, Burlescombe, Devon: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=10262 — States that Appledore Barton lies north of the village and has been identified in Domesday Book as the manor of Suraple, held in 1086 by Walter de Claville.
- Appledore Barton, Burlescombe, Devon — Historic England listing data: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101393269-appledore-barton-burlescombe — Provides the documented location of Appledore Barton at latitude 50.9241, longitude -3.3320, and records its Burlescombe setting and early seventeenth-century farmhouse origins.
- The Crawford collection of early charters and documents now in the Bodleian Library: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/The_Crawford_collection_of_early_charters_and_documents_now_in_the_Bodleian_library%3B_%28IA_crawfordcollecti00napi%29.pdf — Discusses South Appledore in Burlescombe, the medieval form Sourapledre, and the Domesday manor of Surapla in Devon.
- The National Archives: Court roll, 1560–1562, DL 30/57/699: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16428265 — Registry research lead showing a surviving sixteenth-century court roll involving the relevant manor group; the catalogue record itself does not provide a mapped extent.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is based on Appledore Barton as the documented Domesday/manorial site, not on a surviving medieval manor-house building.
- No historically supported territorial polygon was found; do not inject a boundary polygon based on the modern parish, tithing, settlement, or postcode area.
- Appledore Barton’s surviving farmhouse is mainly seventeenth-century, so its coordinate represents the documented manor site rather than proving that the present structure is the medieval manor house.