BAGBY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record F241728 identifies Bagby Manor in the Kirkby Knowle, Yorkshire context. Historical sources place Bagby as the head of a manor whose medieval outliers included Kirby Knowle and Islebeck; later records specifically document Bagby manor courts, rentals and boundary surveys.
Representative point: 54.2178, -1.29084
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Bagby was historically the head of the manor and the centre of the later Bagby-with-Islebeck township. The point is located at Bagby Hall, a surviving C16/early C17 house in the village and the most defensible surviving manorial-centre candidate, although the consulted sources do not explicitly prove that the present building was the manor house.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established; surviving records chiefly cover the 17th-18th centuries, with boundary surveys in 1738 and 1771.
Boundary confidence: medium
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms that Bagby Manor had a territorial extent but does not provide a sufficiently accessible mapped perimeter. Medieval descriptions associate the head manor at Bagby with berewicks or outliers including Kirby Knowle, Islebeck, Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe, Carlton Miniott, Arden Hall and Kepwick. For the later manor, Bagby-with-Islebeck is documented as a township of approximately 1,794-1,899 acres, but that township extent must not automatically be treated as the exact manorial boundary. Catalogued 1738 and 1771 surveys and boundary memoranda are promising primary evidence, but no digitised boundary plan or parcel-level reconstruction was available in the consulted material.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register: Bagby Manor, F241728: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241728 — Registry identity, primary manor name and Kirkby Knowle location.
- Bagby - Tithe Maps Project: https://northyorkstithes.com/project/bagby/ — States that Bagby was in the parish of Kirby Knowle, gives the 1840 description of Bagby as a township of 1,899 acres with Sir R. F. Russell as lord of the manor, and identifies the 1847 tithe map and apportionment.
- GENUKI: Kirby Knowle Parish, Bulmer's 1890: https://www.blunham.com/big/eng/YKS/NRY/KirbyKnowle/KirbyKnowle90.html — Describes Bagby-with-Islebeck as a township of 1,794 acres and states that Baghebi was the head of a manor with six berewicks, including Kirby Knowle and Islebeck.
- Historic England: Bagby Hall, listing 1151338: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1151338 — Provides the precise National Grid Reference SE 46402 80460 for Bagby Hall, a surviving C16 or early C17 house in Bagby, used for the representative point.
- Historic England: Kirby Knowle medieval settlement, listing 1019521: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1019521 — Confirms that Kirby Knowle was an outlier of the manor at Bagby and describes the medieval manorial landscape and manor-house sites at Kirby Knowle.
- Borthwick Institute catalogue: 1738 survey of Bagby boundaries, CC.Ab12/Bag: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14327157 — Primary archive lead for a boundary survey specifically relating to Bagby Manor.
- Borthwick Institute catalogue: 1771 survey of Bagby boundaries, CC.Ab12/Bag: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14372095 — Primary archive lead for a later survey of Bagby Manor boundaries.
- Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society catalogue: Bagby manorial records: https://www.yas.org.uk/Portals/0/Collections%20Guide%2010Feb2018.pdf — Confirms surviving Bagby manorial records, including court material for 1726-1737 and 1789-1809, rentals, and papers relating to Bagby enclosures.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable digitised polygon or parcel-level boundary reconstruction was located.
- The medieval extensive manor associated with Bagby should not automatically be equated with the later Bagby-with-Islebeck township or any modern civil-parish boundary.
- Bagby Hall is a strong surviving manorial-centre candidate, but the consulted sources do not explicitly identify it as the historic manor house.