ARGAM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The National Archives Manorial Documents Register record F236314 is explicitly identified as Argam Manor in Argam, Yorkshire. Independent historical sources identify Argam (also Ergham/Ergam/Argham) as the former medieval settlement and manor in the East Riding, near Grindale and Burton Fleming.
Representative point: 54.125749, -0.299349
Basis: documented_manor_site — Representative point calculated from the authoritative mapped geometry of the scheduled Argam ancient village site, identified with the former Argam settlement and manorial centre. The surviving site lies at approximately OS Grid Reference TA 11321 71189.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; exact period of the recorded manor boundary not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence securely locates Argam Manor at the former Argam settlement but does not provide a defensible polygon for the historical manorial extent. The former civil parish covered about 559 acres, but that administrative area cannot safely be substituted for the manor. Surviving seventeenth-century deed evidence describes parts of the manor, town or grange of Argam and the fourth part of Argam, including holdings in Burton Fleming, while medieval evidence also records a carucate of land at Argam granted to Bardney Abbey. These references indicate that the manor's territorial extent may not have been identical to the later parish boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register: Argam Manor, F236314: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F236314 — Primary registry record identifying the exact manor as Argam Manor and assigning it to Argam, Yorkshire.
- Historic England, Argam ancient village site, List Entry 1005220: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1005220 — Authoritative location for the former Argam settlement: parish of Grindale and National Grid Reference TA 11321 71189.
- Planning Data, Argam ancient village site, scheduled monument 1005220: https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity/13900302 — Authoritative mapped geometry and point for the scheduled ancient village site, used to derive the representative coordinate.
- Hull History Centre, Papers of the Bosville-Macdonald Family, U DDBM: https://catalogue.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/files/u-ddbm.pdf — The catalogue records a 1627 conveyance of premises described as part of the manor, town or grange of Argam, with the fourth part of Argam, and associated holdings in Burton Fleming and Rudston.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, Argam, Yorkshire: https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=15643 — Historical context for Argam as a lost medieval settlement; records the medieval church and settlement site and the 1115 grant of land at Argam to Bardney Abbey.
- Vision of Britain, Argam Parish through time: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10389124 — Confirms the historical association of the Argam parish-level unit with an Argam manor and records the later 559-acre civil-parish area, which is treated only as contextual evidence rather than as the manor boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable manor-specific boundary map, survey, rental map, or reconstructed perimeter was found in the accessible evidence.
- Do not use the former 559-acre Argam civil-parish boundary as the manor polygon without further archival evidence.
- The representative point marks the former Argam settlement/manorial centre, not a confirmed manor-house site.