ATLOW MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name and Bradbourne/Atlow context match the documented medieval and early-modern manor of Atlow. Derbyshire Historic Environment Record evidence identifies the Atlow moated manor house, probably created in the 12th century by Hugh de Okeover; Historic England records the moated site as formerly the home of the Atlow family and later held by the Okeovers. The associated Atlow court rolls from 1350 to 1670 and Derbyshire Record Office descriptions independently confirm the manorial identity.
Representative point: 53.0334, -1.6630
Basis: documented_manor_house — Atlow moated manor house/site, identified at OS National Grid Reference SK 22688 48525, on the north-west side of Henmore Brook near Atlowmoat Farm.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; documented manorial extent not reconstructed
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor house and provide evidence of associated demesne land, including a 1676 survey of the demesnes of Mott Hall and a c.1640 survey of Okeover grounds in Atlow. However, the accessible evidence does not provide sufficient mapped perimeter coordinates for the historical manorial land. The modern civil or ecclesiastical parish of Atlow has not been substituted as a manor boundary.
Sources:
- Atlow moated site, enclosures and causeway, Historic England List Entry 1011620: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1011620 — Identifies the scheduled moated site at OS grid reference SK 22688 48525; states that documentary evidence identifies it as the former home of the Atlow family and that it later passed by marriage to the Okeovers.
- MDR2718 - Atlowmoat Mill, Derbyshire Historic Environment Record: https://her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR2718 — States that 12th-century deeds indicate the Atlow moated manor house was probably created by Hugh de Okeover, and places the associated mill approximately 100 yards downstream from the manor house. It also cites the 1676 survey of the demesne of Mott Hall.
- Okeover family of Okeover, Derbyshire Record Office, D231: https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?id=D231&src=CalmView.Catalog — Confirms manorial court records for Atlow from 1345 to 1670 and describes the Okeover family's title deeds and estate papers for Atlow.
- Survey of the demesnes of Mott Hall, 1676, Derbyshire Record Office, D239/M/E/5475: https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?id=D239%2FE%2FA%2F8&src=CalmView.Catalog — Catalogues the 1676 survey of the demesnes of Mott Hall, Atlow, a potentially important historical extent source, but the accessible catalogue record does not expose a digitised boundary map or coordinate geometry.
- Atlow Manor TNA/MDR record F253253: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F253253 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identity; the associated court-roll references are for Atlow Manor in the Bradbourne context.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is safe for locating the documented manor house/site, not for assuming the centre of the entire historical manor.
- No historical manor boundary polygon has been returned because the accessible evidence does not expose sufficient mapped perimeter information.
- Atlow's former status as a chapelry of Bradbourne explains the registry location, but neither the Bradbourne parish boundary nor the modern Atlow civil-parish boundary has been treated as the manor boundary.