BARHOLM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name and location identify the Barholm manor in Barholm and Stowe, Lincolnshire. The strongest surviving manorial-site evidence is Barholm Old Hall: the Lincolnshire Historic Environment Record classifies it as a manor house, identifies a 15th-century open hall within the present building, and records associated manorial buildings, a dovecote, moat remains and parkland. Historic England independently records the same site as The Old Hall, Barholm, at NGR TF 08842 10689.
Representative point: 52.68295, -0.39128
Basis: documented_manor_house — Barholm Old Hall, Horse Shoe Lane, Barholm, identified by the Lincolnshire Historic Environment Record as a manor house and by Historic England at NGR TF 08842 10689. The point is an approximate WGS84 conversion of that documented National Grid reference.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; extent not securely bounded by the located sources
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms manorial land in both Barholm and Stowe and gives some medieval component holdings, including pasture called Cranmore, land called Smythes, messuages, virgates and a toft. However, no reliable manor-specific perimeter, estate map, rental map, tithe/enclosure plan or scholarly reconstruction sufficient to define the complete territorial boundary was located. The modern civil parish boundary and the later parish area must not be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Barholm Manor, TNA/MDR record F291911: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F291911 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identification; the page provides the National Archives authority context for the Barholm Manor record.
- The Old Hall, Barholm and Stowe, Historic England NHLE 1062697: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062697 — Documents The Old Hall, Horse Shoe Lane, Barholm, parish of Barholm and Stowe, NGR TF 08842 10689, and describes the surviving historic hall.
- MLI33573: The Old Hall, Barholm, Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI33573 — Classifies the site as MANOR HOUSE; records the 15th-century open-hall evidence, associated moat, dovecote, barns, parkland and grid reference TF 08843 10688.
- Mapping the Medieval Countryside: Inquisition post mortem record for Barholm and Stowe: https://inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-245/254.html — Records medieval holdings in Barholm and Stowe, including 48 acres of pasture, part of Cranmore pasture, 41 or 41.5 acres called Smythes, messuages, virgates and a toft, demonstrating that the manor's historical extent was territorial and not necessarily identical to a modern administrative boundary.
- Barholm and Stowe Parish Meeting: local history: https://barholm-stowe.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk/ — Provides local historical context for Barholm and Stowe, including their separate medieval settlements and the later identification of Lord Kesteven as lord of the manor.
- 1896 file of evidence relating to enfranchisement of copyhold land, with other manors, MAF 9/155: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17770397 — Existing registry research lead supplied for the manor's late-19th-century copyhold and enfranchisement context; the catalogue entry does not expose a mapped boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- Barholm Old Hall is the best-supported historic manor-house site, but a separate early-19th-century building called Manor House/Manor Farm also exists nearby at approximately TF 08824 11066.
- The available evidence does not justify a manor-territory polygon. Do not inject the modern Barholm and Stowe civil-parish boundary as the historical manor boundary.