BAGNOR MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record's alternative names match the Westminster Abbey Muniment Room catalogue form "Bagnor cum Courage". The associated Bagnor manor was historically linked with Courage, the former name of Curridge in Chieveley, and the supplied court-roll series is catalogued under that combined manor name. This distinguishes it from unrelated manors named Bagnor or Courage elsewhere.
Representative point: 51.421261, -1.355083
Basis: documented_manor_house — Bagnor Manor Farmhouse, formerly listed as Bagnor Manor, at National Grid Reference SU 44939 69336. The surviving late-seventeenth-century manor house is the most precise documented manorial centre identified.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; documentary evidence also survives for 1710 and 1849
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms a combined manorial identity involving Bagnor and Courage/Curridge, but no source reviewed provides an extractable, georeferenced perimeter for the historical manor. The 1710 Westminster Abbey plan of the manor and the 1849 Bagnor tithe map are strong boundary leads, but their accessible catalogue descriptions do not supply coordinates or a sufficiently legible perimeter for responsible polygon reconstruction. The manor should not be substituted with the modern Speen, Chieveley, Bagnor, or Curridge administrative boundaries.
Sources:
- The National Archives: F240773, Bagnor Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F240773 — Registry record for Bagnor Manor in Speen, Berkshire.
- Westminster Abbey Muniment Room catalogue: GB 119 WAM: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/GB0119%20WAM.pdf — Catalogue explicitly uses the combined form "Bagnor cum Courage" and lists the supplied court-roll sequence for the manor.
- West Berkshire Historic Environment Record: Bagnor, MWB3571: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1030&uid=MWB3571 — Identifies Bagnor as a Domesday manor in Speen, held by Poughley Priory from the thirteenth century to the Dissolution, and records the 1849 Bagnor tithe map and award.
- Historic England: Bagnor Manor Farmhouse, List Entry 1220574: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1220574 — Documents the surviving Bagnor Manor farmhouse in Speen and gives National Grid Reference SU 44939 69336.
- Planning Data: Bagnor Manor Farmhouse geometry: https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity/31862574 — Provides the WGS84 point POINT (-1.355083 51.421261) corresponding to the listed manor house.
- Royal Berkshire Archives: Bagnor Mill: https://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/news/article/bagnor-mill — Confirms that Bagnor Mill and the lordship of Bagnor belonged to the Dean and Canons of Westminster from the sixteenth century, with the lordship sold in 1871.
- Curridge Village history: https://www.curridgevillage.co.uk/curridge-history.html — Identifies Courage as the former name of Curridge and records the medieval manor of Curridge as a Poughley Priory manor, with later Westminster landownership and a 1817 Courage enclosure map.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The historical manor appears to have comprised or been administered with the separate locality of Courage, now Curridge, in Chieveley, approximately several kilometres north-east of Bagnor.
- The representative point is the documented Bagnor manor house and should not be interpreted as the geometric centre of the full Bagnor-cum-Courage territorial extent.
- No historical manor polygon is returned because the available evidence does not expose a reliable, coordinate-ready perimeter.