BARKHAM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record identifies Barkham Manor in Barkham, Berkshire, and the same-named surviving manor house is independently documented by Historic England at Barkham Road, Barkham, OS National Grid Reference SU 78027 67058. Historical evidence also distinguishes this later manor-house site from the probable medieval manor site at Church Farm beside St James's Church, both within the same Barkham manorial history.
Representative point: 51.397204, -0.879825
Basis: documented_manor_house — Historic England records Barkham Manor, formerly listed as Manor House, at OS grid reference SU 78027 67058. The coordinates are converted from that documented National Grid Reference and represent the surviving manor house.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the location of the manor house and separately identify the probable medieval manor site, but do not provide a reliable historical polygon for the full manorial landholding. The parish, modern administrative boundaries, and present-day Barkham Manor estate cannot safely be substituted for the historical manor extent.
Sources:
- Barkham Manor, Barkham — Historic England listing 1313101: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1313101?section=official-list-entry — Documents Barkham Manor as a manor house and stables at Barkham Road, Barkham, with OS National Grid Reference SU 78027 67058; describes the building as constructed on a moated site and including 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century fabric.
- Moated site and associated enclosure at Church Farm, Barkham — Historic England scheduled monument 1013181: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1013181 — Identifies the moated site immediately south-east of St James's Church as the probable site of the medieval manor, with an associated enclosure interpreted as the original manor farmyard; gives OS National Grid Reference SU 78442 66369.
- History of Barkham Manor, Berkshire — Royal Berkshire History: https://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/barkham_manor.html — Records the historical transition from the medieval Barkham Court site near the church to the later Barkham House/Barkham Manor site, and associates the manor with the Arborfield and Barkham estates.
- Barkham — Royal Berkshire History: https://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/barkham.html — Provides the broader succession and ownership history of the Barkham manor, including its medieval association with the Neville and Bullock families and later connection with Arborfield.
- TNA/MDR record F240254 — Barkham Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F240254 — Registry authority record supplied for the exact manor identification.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point identifies the surviving documented manor house, not necessarily the centre of the entire historical manorial landholding.
- The medieval manor site at Church Farm is approximately 0.7 km east-southeast of the later Barkham Manor house and should not be conflated with the representative point.
- No authoritative manor map, surveyed estate boundary, or explicit parcel-based reconstruction sufficient for a defensible polygon was located.
- Do not substitute Barkham civil parish, modern estate grounds, or another administrative boundary for the historical manorial extent.