BALLIDON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The TNA/MDR record F253255 names BALLIDON MANOR and places it at Bradbourne, Derbyshire. Historical sources consistently identify Ballidon as the manor/estate historically known as Bolidene or Ballidon, associated with the Bradbourne area. The evidence distinguishes this manor from the ecclesiastical lands of Bradbourne and from Garendon Abbey's separate Roystone Grange interests.
Representative point: 53.0894, -1.6986
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Ballidonhall Farmhouse, also known as Ballidon Hall Farm, is a substantial C17-C19 historic house within the Ballidon settlement. A 1669 Derbyshire deed identifies a manor house or capital messuage in Ballidon and Cow Close; Ballidonhall is the best surviving documented manorial-centre candidate, although the surviving sources do not explicitly equate the listed farmhouse with the medieval manor house.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern manor; later ownership and extent documented into the 17th-18th centuries
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor's core at Ballidon and record historically associated lands extending beyond the settlement, including land in Ballidon and Doveridge, but do not provide a sufficiently explicit, georeferenceable perimeter for the manorial land. The modern civil parish or chapelry boundary cannot safely be substituted for the historical manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Ballidon Manor, TNA/MDR record F253255: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F253255 — Registry record identifying the exact manor as BALLIDON MANOR and associating it with Bradbourne, Derbyshire.
- Derbyshire Record Office, D2535/M/1/86, deed to lead to the recovery of Over Castern manor: https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?id=D2535%2FM%2F1%2F86&src=CalmView.Catalog — The 1669 deed refers to the manor house or capital messuage in Ballidon and Cow Close and lists named closes and other Ballidon property, confirming a manorial centre and associated landed holdings.
- Historic England, Ballidonhall Farmhouse, NHLE 1335236: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1335236 — Documents the surviving historic Ballidonhall Farmhouse at NGR SK2039554666, a substantial C17-C19 farmhouse and the strongest surviving candidate for the manor's manorial-centre site.
- The History of the County of Derby, Ballidon entry: https://www.totleyhistorygroup.org.uk/app/download/25716847/The_History_of_the_County_of_Derby.pdf — Describes the historical manor of Bolidene/Ballidon, its descent from Ralph Fitzhubert through the Herthill and Cokayne families, and later holdings including land in Ballidon and Doveridge and half the manor of Ballidon.
- Peak District National Park, Ballidon Conservation Area Written Statement: https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/153807/Ballidon_Appraisal-Document-131.pdf — Provides authoritative historical and archaeological context for Ballidon's medieval settlement, historic field system, Ballidon Hall Farm area and the relationship of the settlement to the surrounding agricultural landscape.
- A Vision of Britain through Time, Ballidon: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3412 — Confirms Ballidon as a historical chapelry in Bradbourne parish and gives the 19th-century territorial and settlement context.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is a supported inference from the documented manor-house reference in Ballidon and the surviving historic Ballidonhall farmhouse; no source found explicitly states that Ballidonhall Farmhouse is the original manor house.
- No reliable source located supplies a complete historical polygon for Ballidon Manor. The modern Ballidon civil-parish or chapelry boundary must not be used as a substitute.
- Historical records indicate that the manor's associated property could include lands outside Ballidon, including holdings in Doveridge, so the manor should not be assumed to have been coterminous with the settlement or modern parish.