BANDON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The supplied TNA/MDR record F245690 is the Beddington, Surrey manor record for Bandon Manor. Independent historical sources identify Bandon as also called Foresters or Forsters, associate it with Reginald le Forester, and record its later union with the Carew manorial holdings. The supplied Surrey History Centre court rolls, rentals and accounts explicitly concern Bandon with Beddington and related Carew manors.
Representative point: 51.37834, -0.13251
Basis: settlement_proxy — Bandon Manor was located on the east side of the historic Beddington parish, in the area now identified as Beddington Village. No securely documented manor-house site for Bandon itself was found; the point is therefore a cautious proxy for the historically attested Bandon/Beddington Village area.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence establishes the manor's historical location and some associated features, including Bandon Mill and lands east of Bandon Way, now Beddington Lane, but does not provide a sufficiently clear, manor-specific perimeter. The 1820 Beddington and Bandon enclosure map documents land division in the combined estate/parish context, yet the accessible evidence does not isolate the territorial boundary of Bandon Manor itself. A modern parish, conservation-area or administrative boundary would not be a valid substitute.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Bandon Manor, TNA/MDR record F245690: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F245690 — Registry record supplied for Bandon Manor, Beddington, Surrey; authority/reference GB/NNAF/M170567.
- Beddington Village Conservation Area Character Appraisal: https://www.sutton.gov.uk/documents/d/guest/beddington-village-conservation-area-character-appraisal-2018- — States that Bandon Manor was on the east side of Beddington parish, now Beddington Village; records the 1349 grant to Reginald Forester and the later name Bandon in Beddington.
- A Topographical History of Surrey: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/A_topographical_history_of_Surrey_%28IA_b29350463_0004%29.pdf — Identifies the reputed manor of Bandon as Bandon or Forester's, explains the association with Reginald le Forester, and records Bandon alias Forsters in the later Carew inheritance.
- Beddington Mill, Wandle Road, Beddington: https://wandle.org/aboutus/mills/mcgow/mcgow5.htm — Places the historically possible Bandon Mill upstream from Carew Manor and discusses evidence that Bandon Mill and Beddington Mill may have been identical.
- Wandle Mills: Bandon and Beddington evidence: https://www.cadhas.org.uk/app/download/5817192798/Occ%2B14%2BWandle%2BMills%2B8.pdf — States that Bandon Mill was probably in Bandon Manor, east of Bandon Way, now Beddington Lane; useful for locating the eastern Bandon area but not sufficient to reconstruct the full manor boundary.
- Courts of the manors of Beddington and Bandon, 1498-1552: https://catalog.folger.edu/record/46011 — Independent catalogue identification of Bandon Manor, Surrey, and its surviving court records.
- The house and moat at Carew Manor Beddington: interim report: https://www.cadhas.org.uk/app/download/5817192777/Occ%2B10%2BCarew%2BHouse%2Bvol%2B1.pdf — Confirms the existence and use of the Beddington and Bandon enclosure map of 1820, but the accessible material concerns the Carew manor-house area rather than a separable Bandon boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative coordinate is a settlement proxy, not a documented Bandon manor-house location.
- Bandon, Foresters and Forsters are treated as names or historical forms of the same registry manor, not as separate manors.
- No defensible manor-specific polygon was found. Do not substitute the historic Beddington parish, modern London Borough of Sutton, Beddington Village Conservation Area, or the combined 1820 enclosure area as the boundary of Bandon Manor.
- The evidence suggests that Bandon was later incorporated into or held with the Carew Beddington estate, so the territorial extent may have changed over time.