BARHAM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name and Barham, Suffolk location match the Grade II listed building named Barham Manor on Church Lane, formerly a manor house, at National Grid Reference TM 14220 51033. The Suffolk Heritage Explorer also links this building to the historic Manor Farm/Barham Hall Farm complex. Barham Hall, approximately 500 metres to the west/south-west, is a related but distinct estate and should not be substituted for the registered manor site.
Representative point: 52.1161, 1.1274
Basis: documented_manor_house — Historic England identifies Barham Manor, Church Lane, as a former manor house and gives NGR TM 14220 51033; published decimal coordinates for that NGR are approximately 52.1161, 1.1274.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor-house location but does not provide a sufficiently explicit historical perimeter for the manorial land. Domesday evidence records several separate holdings at Barham, while the 1840 Barham tithe map and later estate references do not, in the accessible material, identify a complete boundary for this exact manor. The modern civil-parish boundary and the later Barham Hall estate have therefore not been used as substitutes.
Sources:
- Historic England: Barham Manor, Barham, Suffolk, NHLE 1033248: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033248 — Identifies Barham Manor on Church Lane as a former manor house and gives National Grid Reference TM 14220 51033.
- Suffolk Heritage Explorer: Manor Farm (Barham Hall Farm), BRH 052: https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/Monument/MSF25021 — Places the historic Manor Farm complex at centred grid reference TM 1417 5104 and records its association with the listed Barham Manor building and the 1840 Barham tithe map.
- Suffolk's Historic Gardens & Parks Inventory: Barham Hall: https://suffolkhistoricgardensandparks.co.uk/barham-hall/ — Documents the separate Barham Hall and its estate, identifies its location around TM 137 509, and records an estate of about 80 acres in Barham and Claydon in 1920; useful for distinguishing Barham Hall from Barham Manor.
- Suffolk County Council Historic Environment Record: Barham parish PDF: https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/media/pdfs/barham.pdf — Summarizes the parish's Domesday holdings and identifies Barham Manor in the parish manorial history, but does not supply a recoverable boundary for the exact later manor.
- Open Domesday: Barham, Suffolk: https://opendomesday.org/place/TM1350/barham/ — Shows that Domesday recorded multiple distinct landholdings at Barham, including holdings of Robert Malet, Roger of Poitou and Ely, demonstrating why the Domesday settlement extent cannot safely be used as the later Barham Manor boundary.
- The National Archives: TNA/MDR record F249848: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F249848 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identity.
- The National Archives: 1560 Barham court book, E3/15.18/1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14552109 — Existing archival research lead documenting a 1560 court book associated with the manor.
- The National Archives: 1587-1588 rental, HD1099/1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14552917 — Existing archival research lead documenting a late-sixteenth-century rental involving the manor or associated manors; no mapped boundary was available in the accessible catalogue entry.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for injection as the documented former manor house.
- No historical manorial polygon is returned because the accessible evidence does not define the perimeter of the exact manor.
- Barham Hall is a related but distinct site and estate; its grounds and the modern parish boundary must not be treated as the boundary of Barham Manor.
- The Domesday holdings at Barham were multiple and cannot safely be merged into a single later manor extent.