BADINGHAM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's alternative name Badingham Hall (Manor) matches the documented Badingham Hall manor in Badingham, Suffolk. Suffolk historical and archaeological sources identify Badingham Hall as a distinct manor, separate from Colston Hall and Oakenhill Hall, and locate its former moated hall site in Badingham.
Representative point: 52.2696, 1.4087
Basis: documented_manor_site — Approximate WGS84 conversion of the Suffolk Historic Environment Record grid reference TM 3266 6989 for the medieval/post-medieval Badingham Hall moat and hall site. The associated farmstead record gives the closely corresponding reference TM 3264 6983. The hall and farmstead are demolished, but the moat and archaeological remains survive as the documented manor-site location.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to nineteenth century; exact territorial extent undetermined
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor house/site but do not provide a sufficiently legible or explicit boundary for the manorial land. The modern parish cannot safely be substituted: historical descriptions record separate manors of Badingham Hall, Colston Hall and Oakenhill Hall within Badingham. Tithe-map and estate-plan references demonstrate potentially useful archival evidence, but no accessible source located here identifies the perimeter of Badingham Hall Manor specifically. The court rolls, rentals, copyhold records and enclosure material may contain parcel-level evidence for a future reconstruction.
Sources:
- Suffolk Historic Environment Record: BDG 002 - Badingham Hall (Med): https://suffolkher-dev.esdm.co.uk/Monument/MSF758 — Records the medieval/post-medieval Badingham Hall site as a moated house, centred at TM 3266 6989, with archaeological material extending northwards; identifies it as the possible site of Badingham Hall.
- Suffolk Heritage Explorer: BDG 076 - Farmstead: Badingham Hall: https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/Monument/MSF38558 — Identifies Badingham Hall as a former hall and farmstead, visible on Hodskinson's 1783 map and first- and second-edition Ordnance Survey maps; gives centred grid reference TM 3264 6983 and states that all buildings are lost.
- V. B. Redstone, 'Badingham', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, 1900: https://suffolkinstitute.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/Suffolk%20Institute/2014/01/10/Volume%20X%20Part%203%20%281900%29_Badingham%20V%20B%20Redstone_382%20to%20393.pdf — Describes Badingham Hall and Colston Hall as separate manors existing in 1086 and states that only the remains of walls within a four-sided moat and nearby farmstead survived at Badingham Hall.
- Victoria County History, Suffolk: History of Suffolk Homestead Moats: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AVCH_Suffolk_1.djvu/684 — Describes the Badingham Hall moat as an imperfect oblong, corroborating the documented manor-site identification.
- The National Archives: F249841 - Badingham Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F249841 — Registry record for the exact manor, with authority/reference GB/NNAF/M242134 and location Badingham, Suffolk.
- Suffolk Archives: HD449 - Court roll of Badingham Hall: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14551673 — Archive catalogue evidence for surviving court rolls explicitly associated with Badingham Hall, supporting the identification of the manor record.
- Suffolk Heritage Explorer: Badingham Tithe Map: https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/Source/SSF59181 — Confirms the existence of a Badingham tithe map and references Badingham Hall among the mapped historic farmsteads; useful archival lead but not sufficient by itself to establish the manor boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable source located provides a documented polygon or explicit perimeter for Badingham Hall Manor.
- Do not use the modern Badingham civil-parish boundary as the manor boundary because the parish historically contained multiple distinct manors.
- The representative coordinates identify the former moated hall/manor site, not a surviving building or modern legal property boundary.