BARCHESTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name, Barcheston location, TNA/MDR record F243249, authority reference GB/NNAF/M229089, and the supplied Warwickshire County Record Office court-roll references all identify the historic manor of Barcheston in the parish of Barcheston, Warwickshire. The associated CR 580 records specifically concern the manor's freeholders, manorial court and views of frankpledge from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Representative point: 52.0561, -1.6158
Basis: documented_manor_house — The surviving listed Manor Farmhouse, formerly identified as Barcheston Manor House, is the documented late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century manor house approximately 200 metres south of Barcheston church. Historic Environment Record grid reference SP 26534 38890 and Historic England identification of the building as a manor house support this point.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern manor; later Sheldon estate evidence documented chiefly for 1507-1806
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor house and indicate a substantial manorial holding extending across Barcheston and associated lands around Willington. Historical acreage figures include approximately 750 acres acquired with the manor in 1507, 477 acres surveyed as Barston Farm in 1647, and a later Sheldon estate divided into auction lots, with a principal estate of 467 acres and a total conveyance in 1806 of approximately 712 acres. However, no source located provides a sufficiently clear, georeferenced perimeter for the historic manorial land. The 1797/1806 estate map depicts later Sheldon estate divisions rather than an unequivocal medieval manor boundary, and the 1555-acre parish boundary cannot safely be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Barcheston Manor, TNA/MDR record F243249: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F243249 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identification.
- Warwickshire County Record Office: memorandum listing freeholders owing suit and lands of the manor, CR 580/1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14281589 — Fourteenth- to fifteenth-century evidence explicitly referring to lands and freeholders of the manor.
- Warwickshire County Record Office: views of frankpledge, CR 580/2: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14273907 — Manorial court evidence for Barcheston dated 1429-1434.
- Warwickshire County Record Office: views of frankpledge, CR 580/3-4: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14345948 — Manorial court evidence for Barcheston dated 1450-1451.
- Warwickshire County Record Office: views of frankpledge, CR 580/5-7: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14340003 — Manorial court evidence for Barcheston dated 1474-1487.
- Warwickshire County Record Office: view of frankpledge, CR 580/8: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14350723 — Manorial court evidence for Barcheston dated 1503.
- Manor Farmhouse, Barcheston, Historic England list entry 1355464: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1355464 — Identifies the surviving Manor Farmhouse in Barcheston parish at National Grid Reference SP 26534 38890 and describes it as a seventeenth-century manor farmhouse.
- Barcheston Manor House, Warwickshire Historic Environment Record MWA8634: https://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/detail.aspx?monuid=WA8634 — States that Barcheston Manor House is marked on the 1886 Ordnance Survey map, lies approximately 200 metres south of Barcheston church, and was the manor associated with William Sheldon's enterprise.
- Barcheston's History: Medieval Settlements: https://www.barchestonhistory.info/medieval.html — Summarises the manor's medieval ownership, manorial court, enclosure, freeholders and 1507 sale of the manor to William Willington.
- Barcheston's History: Sixteenth century: https://www.barchestonhistory.info/sixteenthc.html — Reports approximately 750 acres acquired with the manor in 1507 and describes the manor's lands, enclosure and later ownership.
- Barcheston's History: Eighteenth century: https://www.barchestonhistory.info/eighteenthc.html — Provides the strongest located extent evidence for the later estate, including the 1647 survey, 1797 auction planning, 467-acre principal estate and later estate divisions.
- Division of the Sheldons' estate in Barcheston, proposed 1797: https://www.barchestonhistory.info/18thc-map.pdf — Historical estate map based on Warwickshire County Record Office CR 580/35 and the 1885 Ordnance Survey; useful evidence of later estate divisions but not sufficient to establish the medieval manor perimeter.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for injection as the documented manor-house location.
- No defensible historical manor polygon was established; do not inject a parish, civil-parish, modern estate or later auction-lot boundary as the manor boundary.
- Barcheston and Willington appear together in the historical manorial and estate context, but the surviving evidence does not permit their exact historical land division to be reconstructed safely.