BADDESLEY ENSOR MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name and location match the distinct medieval and later manor of Baddesley Ensor in Warwickshire. The National Archives record F244003 and the associated 1506–1530 Dugdale court rolls provide direct archival confirmation of this manor, while historical place-name evidence records the same manor under earlier forms including Baddesley, Baddesley Endeshoure and Badsley Endsor.
Representative point: 52.5805, -1.6005
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Approximate location of the former Baddesley Old Hall/Church Farm site on New Street. The Warwickshire HER places Baddesley Old Hall about one-third of a kilometre south of St Nicholas's Church, and the 1848 tithe-map evidence places it roughly beneath the present Church Farmhouse. This is the strongest surviving evidence for the manor's principal historical centre, although the hall itself has been demolished.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; no securely mapped perimeter established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor's settlement and manorial centre but do not provide a sufficiently clear, source-backed polygon for the historical manorial estate. Domesday records Baddesley Ensor as a two-hide estate with woodland, and later records confirm the manor and court rolls, but the available evidence does not define its complete perimeter. The modern civil-parish boundary and the post-medieval settlement extent were therefore not substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Baddesley Ensor Manor, F244003: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244003 — Registry record for the exact Baddesley Ensor manor.
- The National Archives: Dugdale Bundle 1(1), court rolls, 1506–1530: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14342941 — Archival court-roll reference associated with Baddesley Ensor Manor.
- Our Warwickshire: Baddesley Old Hall: https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue-her/baddesley-old-hall — Identifies the former Baddesley Old Hall in Baddesley Ensor and places it about 100 metres east of Church Farm; records that it no longer survives.
- North Warwickshire Historic Environment Assessment: https://www.dordonparishcouncil.gov.uk/uploads/1/2/2/2/122269755/ad1_n._warks_historic_environment_assessment_final_13_02_19_.pdf — Reports that the 1848 tithe map places Baddesley Old Hall roughly beneath the present Church Farmhouse and that the hall had been demolished by the First Edition OS map.
- English Place-Name Society, Warwickshire volume: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/epns/documents/warwickshire.pdf — Records historical forms of Baddesley Ensor and states that the manor passed from the wife of Geoffrey Savage to Thomas de Edneshoure in 1260.
- Open Domesday: Baddesley Ensor: https://opendomesday.org/place/SP2798/baddesley-ensor/ — Provides the Domesday identification of Baddesley Ensor as a manor/estate in Coleshill Hundred and records its two ploughlands and associated resources.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative coordinates are approximate and identify the former Old Hall/Church Farm manorial centre rather than a surviving building.
- No reliable historical perimeter for the manor was located; do not inject a boundary polygon derived from the modern parish, village, postcode, or administrative limits.
- The exact Old Hall position is reconstructed from the HER and tithe-map description, not from a surviving georeferenced manor-house footprint.