ATTERBY MANOR

Identity: likely — The record is best identified with the historical manor associated with Atterby, the former township and medieval settlement within Bishop Norton parish, Lincolnshire. Local historical research identifies Atterby as distinct from the principal Bishop's manor of Bishop Norton and records a small manorial/prebendal estate connected with the Bishop Norton ecclesiastical estate. The TNA survey dated 1616 and the 1835 rental are consistent with a surviving Atterby manorial record, but the archival descriptions available online do not expose the surveyed parcels or a formal manor boundary.
Representative point: 53.4250, -0.5240
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Representative centre of the historical Atterby settlement/manorial area, close to the Lincolnshire HER recorded medieval settlement at SK 9808 9313 and the documented Atterby farmstead cluster. No separately documented medieval manor house or securely identified manor-house site was found.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available web evidence establishes the historical location of Atterby Manor but does not provide a manor-specific map, surveyed perimeter, rental map, enclosure allotment map, or explicit parcel schedule sufficient to reconstruct its territorial extent. The modern Bishop Norton civil-parish boundary and the former Atterby township boundary were not substituted for the manorial boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Atterby Manor record F291783: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F291783 — Registry record supplied for Atterby Manor, Bishop Norton, Lincolnshire; authority/reference GB/NNAF/M317169.
- The National Archives: 1616 general survey, ENG MS 216: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17767066 — Research lead for a 1616 general survey of the manor; catalogue record confirms the relevant archival survey exists, although the online description does not provide its boundary data.
- The National Archives: 1835 rental, STUBBS/IV/2C/12: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17769966 — Research lead for an 1835 rental with other manors; catalogue record does not expose a mapped extent.
- Bishop Norton and Atterby General Landscape Character Assessment: https://bishop-norton-atterby.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/10/general-landscape-character-assessment — States that Atterby is an early medieval place and distinguishes the Bishop's principal manor, the Prebendary manor of Bishop Norton, and Crossholme manor; it also places the historical Atterby settlement and Atterby Farm in the relevant landscape.
- Bishop Norton and Atterby Neighbourhood Plan: https://www.west-lindsey.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-02/Bishop%20Norton%20and%20Atterby%20Neighbourhood%20Plan%20-%20Final%20Referendum%20Version.pdf — Describes the three historical manors in the parish and records the small estate, land income, and jurisdictional association of the Bishop Norton prebend with Bishop Norton, Atterby, and Spital-in-the-Street.
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: Remains of Medieval Settlement of Atterby, MLI50847: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI50847 — Documents the medieval settlement of Atterby and gives its centred location as OS grid reference SK 9808 9313, supporting the representative location.
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: Atterby House Farm, Bishop Norton, MLI117326: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI117326 — Documents a surviving historic farmstead in the Atterby settlement area at SK 9809 9301; useful as contextual evidence for the manorial/settlement centre, but it is not explicitly identified as the medieval manor house.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The identification is strong geographically but remains classified as likely because the accessible TNA catalogue entries do not publish the contents of the 1616 survey or 1835 rental.
- Atterby Manor must not be represented by the modern Bishop Norton civil-parish boundary or by the full former Atterby township boundary without consulting the archival survey, rental, or associated maps.
- The representative point is a historically supported centre of the Atterby manorial area, not a confirmed surviving manor-house location.