BANKERS MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record for BANKERS MANOR is securely identified with the historical manor of Bankhurst/Bankers in Lee, Kent. The supplied archival leads specifically concern the Manor of Bankhurst/Bankers, including rentals, court proceedings, quit-rent lists and an 1809 perambulation. Independent local historical research describes Bankers as one of the three associated manors of Lee, alongside Lee and Shroffold, and distinguishes its territorial area within Lewisham, Deptford, Brockley and Ladywell.
Representative point: 51.458000, -0.026000
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Low-confidence approximate central point within the historically described Bankers/Bankhurst area: between Lewisham, the Deptford boundary at Brookmill Road, Brockley and the Bankhurst Road/Ladywell area. No surviving manor-house site for Bankers itself was located in the accessible sources.
Point confidence: low
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early nineteenth century; specifically documented archival boundary material includes an 1809 perambulation
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The accessible evidence establishes the manor's general position but does not reproduce a sufficiently precise boundary description or map. The Lewisham Archives catalogue confirms a detailed 1809 perambulation and earlier boundary papers for Bankhurst, but the actual perimeter text or plan was not available in the accessible catalogue extract. A local historical summary places Bankers within Lewisham from near the police station toward the Deptford boundary at Brookmill Road, through the top of Loampit Vale and along the hillcrest toward Brockley, then around the Bankhurst Road/Ladywell area and back toward the river and police station. This is insufficient to construct a defensible polygon without inventing intermediate lines.
Sources:
- The National Archives: BANKERS MANOR, TNA/MDR record F287569: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F287569 — Registry authority/reference GB/NNAF/M313617 and the exact manor record supplied for BANKERS MANOR.
- Lewisham Archives Catalogue, Records of the Baring Estate, Lee: https://lewisham.gov.uk/-/media/files/lewishamarchivescatalogue.ashx — Lists manorial records for Bankers, Lee and Shroffold, including Bankhurst rentals, quit-rent lists, court records and a detailed perambulation of the Manor of Bankhurst under A/62/6/147 and related boundary papers.
- Perambulation of Manor of Bankhurst, 1809, National Archives Discovery reference N17352807: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17352807 — The supplied archival lead identifies the 1809 perambulation as a detailed description of the Bankhurst boundary.
- The History of Lee, Lee Manor Society: https://leemanorsociety.org/local-history/the-history-of-lee/ — Describes Lee, Bankers and Shroffold as associated manors and places Bankers generally within Lewisham, toward Brookmill Road and Deptford, Loampit Vale, Brockley and the Bankhurst Road/Ladywell area.
- A Description of the Parish of Lee in Lysons' Environs of London, 1796: https://durobrivis.net/library/1796-lysons.pdf — Confirms the historical grouping of the manor of Lee with its appendages Shro-folt and Bankers and associates the manors with the Banquel/Bankwell family and lands in Lee, Lewisham and Bromley.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor was historically in Kent but its territory is now within south-east London, principally the modern London Borough of Lewisham and adjoining Deptford area.
- The representative coordinate is an approximate manorial-centre point, not a documented manor-house location.
- No polygon is returned because the accessible sources confirm that boundary records exist but do not expose enough mapped or textual perimeter detail to reconstruct the historical manorial extent reliably.
- The modern Bankhurst Road is a useful historical-location clue but must not be treated as the manor boundary.