BAKEWELL MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record is located at Bakewell, Derbyshire and is supported by a continuous series of Bakewell manor court rolls, rentals, surveys and related records in the Haddon Hall MSS. Historical evidence identifies the medieval and early-modern manorial centre as Gernon Hall or Moor Hall, associated with the Gernon/Vernon lords of Bakewell.
Representative point: 53.2069, -1.6913
Basis: documented_manor_site — Approximate WGS84 conversion of OS grid reference SK2072 6781, the Derbyshire Historic Environment Record location for the possible site of Moor Hall on Burton Moor. Moor Hall is identified in local archaeological and historical sources as the manor house of the lords of Bakewell; the exact building footprint is uncertain, but the site is documented as the likely manorial centre.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; extent not established from available online evidence
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms the location of Bakewell Manor and refers to 1796 and 1799 maps of the Manor of Bakewell, together with a 1549 survey and later rentals, but the accessible sources do not provide a sufficiently legible, georeferenced and explicitly manorial perimeter. The modern civil-parish boundary, town boundary and enclosure-map coverage cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Bakewell Manor record F253254: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F253254 — Registry record for BAKEWELL MANOR, located at Bakewell, Derbyshire, with authority/reference GB/NNAF/M271290.
- Derbyshire Historic Environment Record: Moor Hall (site of), Burton Moor, Bakewell, MDR3533: https://her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR3533 — Identifies the possible site of Moor Hall, the manor house of the Gernons/Vernons, lords of the Manor of Bakewell; gives approximate grid reference SK207 678 and describes associated earthworks and the field-name evidence Moor Hall Close.
- Peak District National Park Authority: Appendix 6b, Non-Designated Heritage Assets: https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/85711/Appendix-6b-Table-of-Non-Designated-Heritage-Assests.pdf — Records the possible Moor Hall site, the association with the lords of Bakewell, the 1796 and 1799 map evidence, and the uncertainty over whether the surviving earthworks represent the hall itself or ancillary buildings.
- Bakewell and District Historical Society Journal 2018: https://oldhousemuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2018_Journal.pdf — Summarizes W. A. Carrington's research identifying Gernon Hall/Moor Hall as the Bakewell manorial hall, located about one mile west of Bakewell, and associates it with Moor Hall Close and the former Moorhall field.
- Derbyshire Record Office catalogue: Rutland Estate plan, part of the Manor of Bakewell, 1799: https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?id=M%2F721&src=CalmView.Catalog — Confirms the existence of a 1799 estate plan explicitly titled as part of the Manor of Bakewell, but the catalogue entry alone does not supply a usable boundary polygon.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor house is identified with high historical plausibility as Gernon Hall/Moor Hall, but the exact building footprint is not securely known; the HER states that the hall may have stood immediately east of the recorded earthworks.
- No defensible historical manorial boundary polygon was found in the accessible evidence. The 1796 and 1799 maps and the 1549 survey are important leads for archival follow-up, but their boundaries should not be reconstructed without inspecting the original plans and schedules.
- The returned coordinate is a representative point for the documented possible manor-house site, not a surveyed building centroid or a modern administrative centre.