BAINBRIDGE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The National Archives Manorial Documents Register record F240711 identifies Bainbridge Manor in Aysgarth, Yorkshire, and the associated archival material consistently describes the same Bainbridge manor, including its courts, accounts, trustees and enclosure records. Historical evidence places the manor in the Bainbridge-Worton area of Upper Wensleydale, within the ancient parish of Aysgarth.
Representative point: 54.3055, -2.0697
Basis: documented_manor_house — Manor House and Railings at Worton, Bainbridge, listed by Historic England at NGR SD 95561 89986. This is the most precise surviving documented manor-house location associated with Bainbridge Manor.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Documented principally through the 1762-1816 enclosure material, with medieval and early-modern manorial evidence extending earlier.
Boundary confidence: medium
Boundary basis: The historical manor was substantially larger than the village or modern settlement. North Yorkshire Archives records identify 1810 common pastures in the manor of Bainbridge totalling 1,036 acres, and a 17 October 1816 enclosure award covering over 14,000 acres. The associated maps and schedules name Bainbridge, Burtersett, Hawes, Sleddale, Duerley, Buck, Marsett, Counterside, Stalling Busk, Widdale Side, Mossdale, Gayle, Stake and Cragdale commons and other pastures. These sources establish a very extensive manorial territory, but the web-accessible evidence does not provide a georeferenced perimeter from which a defensible polygon can be reconstructed without consulting the original archive maps and award schedules.
Sources:
- BAINBRIDGE MANOR, The National Archives Manorial Documents Register, F240711: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F240711 — Confirms the exact registry manor identity, historical coverage from 1189-1925, location at Aysgarth, and the associated court rolls, accounts, estreats and trustees' records.
- Manor House and Railings, Historic England List Entry 1132014: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1132014 — Documents the listed Manor House at Worton, Bainbridge, with National Grid Reference SD 95561 89986, convertible to approximately 54.3055, -2.0697.
- North Yorkshire Archives Publications No. 41: Enclosure Awards and Maps: https://archivesunlocked.northyorks.gov.uk/CalmView/GetMultimedia.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=05%5Cb9042b-bcba-4bb4-8c2e-d84c6e7fb747.pdf&type=default — Lists Bainbridge enclosure material: 1810 Worton, Brough and Waterling Pastures totalling 1,036 acres, and the 1816 award covering named pastures, commons and wastes exceeding 14,000 acres, with twelve associated maps.
- Enclosure in focus: Bainbridge, North Yorkshire Archives Blog: https://nycroblog.com/fields5b/ — Confirms that over 14,000 acres of the manor of Bainbridge were enclosed by the award of 17 October 1816 and that the award was accompanied by twelve maps dated 1807.
- Inquisition Post Mortem 25-513, Mapping the Medieval Countryside: https://inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/25-513/ — Provides medieval evidence for the manor, vill and bailiwick of Bainbridge and its relationship to the wider Wensleydale territorial complex.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The returned point is suitable as a representative manor location but should not be interpreted as the full historical extent.
- No polygon is returned because the available online evidence describes the enclosure areas and names the original maps, but does not expose a sufficiently precise georeferenced manor perimeter.
- The modern civil parish of Bainbridge has not been substituted for the historical manorial boundary.