BARKSTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The record is identified with the historic Barkston township in the ancient parish of Sherburn in Elmet, West Riding of Yorkshire, rather than the separate Barkston in Lincolnshire. The York Archbishops' Registers catalogue explicitly places Barkston within Sherburn in Elmet and classifies it as a township. The associated Gascoigne manorial records, including a 1312 extent and rentals from 1545 and 1578, are consistent with a distinct Barkston manor in this locality.
Representative point: 53.817296, -1.254512
Basis: documented_manor_site — The point is the approximate centre of postcode LS24 9PL on Back Lane, Barkston Ash, where official North Yorkshire planning and highways records locate Manor Farm and Saw Wells Lane leading to it. The adjoining historic property name Old Manor Stables provides additional evidence that this is the surviving manor-house/manor-farm site associated with Barkston Manor.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The consulted online evidence establishes the manor's location in Barkston township and identifies a likely manor site at Manor Farm, Back Lane, but does not provide a recoverable manor-specific map, schedule of parcels, or explicit perimeter. The township, ancient parish, modern civil parish, and Barkston Ash wapentake boundaries cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Barkston Manor, F244403: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244403 — Registry record for Barkston Manor; associated location is Sherburn in Elmet, Yorkshire.
- York Archbishops' Registers: Barkston: https://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk/browse/places?all=yes — Lists Barkston as a township within Sherburn in Elmet, West Riding of Yorkshire.
- The National Archives: 1312 extent of Barkston and other manors, GC/E3/1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14334056 — Archive lead for a 1312 extent, copied in the sixteenth century, directly relevant to the manor's historical landholding.
- The National Archives: 1545 rental and list of free and copyhold tenants, GC/E3/10: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14301041 — Archive lead showing a manor-specific rental and tenant list for Barkston.
- The National Archives: 1578 rental, GC/E3/11: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14262872 — Later manor-specific rental confirming continued documentary treatment of Barkston as a separate manor.
- North Yorkshire County Council highways register: https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2023-03/Highways_register_list_of_streets_Jan_2012.pdf — Locates Manor Farm, Back Lane, Barkston and records Saw Wells Lane running to Manor Farm; grid references place the site near SE 491 359.
- North Yorkshire planning record: Manor Farm, Back Lane, Barkston Ash: https://edemocracy.northyorks.gov.uk/Data/Selby%20-%20Planning%20Committee/20120111/Agenda/Report%201.pdf — Official planning record identifying Manor Farm, Back Lane, Barkston Ash, LS24 9PL.
- LS24 9PL postcode geodata: https://www.getthedata.com/postcode/LS24-9PL — Provides the WGS84 point 53.817296, -1.254512 for the Manor Farm/Back Lane postcode area.
- Durham E-Theses: Land and property history in Yorkshire: https://etheses.durham.ac.uk/12108/1/1_FullThesis.pdf — Search result states that in 1675 Sir John Newton and Jack Newton purchased the manor house and land in Barkston, supporting the existence of a manor-house site in Barkston.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor record but should not be interpreted as the centre of the full historical manorial territory with cadastral precision.
- No historically grounded perimeter polygon was found in the accessible online evidence.
- The 1312 extent, 1545 and 1578 rentals, and later Gascoigne records should be consulted directly at West Yorkshire Archive Service for reconstruction of the manor's territorial extent.