BAGTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The West Devon Historic Environment Record identifies the probable Domesday manor site at Bagton Farm, West Alvington, and records the historical place-name forms. This matches the registry's primary name Bagton Manor, alternative name Batton, and location. Domesday evidence identifies Bachedona/Bagton as a manor held by Judhel of Totnes in 1086.
Representative point: 50.2566, -3.8196
Basis: documented_manor_site — Approximate conversion of the Devon Historic Environment Record's National Grid Reference SX 7030 4141, which identifies the probable site of the Domesday manor at Bagton Farm, West Alvington.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval manor; Domesday evidence from 1086 with later medieval name and tenancy references
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor's location and some historical landholding information but does not provide a documented or reconstructable perimeter for the manorial lands. The Domesday entry records resources and assessment, but not a boundary polygon. The 1722–1737 rental reference is a research lead and no accessible mapped survey or parcel schedule tying a perimeter specifically to Bagton Manor was located.
Sources:
- HER Monument ID MDV16001: Manor in the Parish of West Alvington: https://kingsbridge.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/B21a-West-Alvington-Monuments.pdf — Identifies Bagton Farm as the probable approximate site of the Domesday manor of Bachedona, held by Judhel of Totnes in 1086; gives NGR SX 7030 4141 and records the historical forms Baketon, Bagkethon and Baggetone.
- Open Domesday: Bagton: https://opendomesday.org/place/SX7041/bagton/ — Identifies Bagton as a Domesday settlement in Diptford hundred, Devon, held by Iudhael of Totnes, with two ploughlands, two acres of meadow and two acres of pasture in 1086.
- Magna Britannia, Devonshire, Part II: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Magna_Britannia%3B_being_a_Concise_Topographical_Account_of_the_Several_Counties_of_Great_Britain%2C_Vol._VI-_containing_Devonshire%2C_Part_II_%28IA_dli.granth.75056%29.pdf — Records the later manor as Bagton or Batton in West Alvington and distinguishes it from the other manors in the parish.
- The National Archives: F276428: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F276428 — Registry record supplied for Bagton Manor; used as the archival identity reference.
- The National Archives: 5821A/PZ/3/1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16432038 — Catalogue reference for the 1722–1737 rental containing Bagton Manor with other manors; treated as a lead for further extent research rather than boundary evidence.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative coordinates are derived from an approximate 100 m National Grid reference and should not be treated as the exact position of a surviving manor house.
- No defensible historical manorial boundary polygon was found; the modern West Alvington parish or civil-parish boundary must not be substituted.
- The HER describes the site as probable and approximate, not as a surviving identified manor-house building.