BARLASTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name, Staffordshire location, associated place, and extensive medieval-to-sixteenth-century manorial accounts, rentals, surveys, and court records all identify the historic manor of Barlaston in Staffordshire. Barlaston Hall is documented as the manor house built on or replacing the earlier manor-house site, providing a defensible physical location for the manor.
Representative point: 52.949318, -2.158580
Basis: documented_manor_house — Barlaston Hall, Queen Mary's Drive, Barlaston, is the documented manor house associated with the ancient Manor of Barlaston. Historic England gives OS Grid Reference SJ 89442 39114, corresponding to this WGS84 point.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available web evidence establishes the manor's location and identifies Barlaston Hall as its manor house, but does not provide a documented or reconstructable perimeter for the historical manorial land. The parish area, later Barlaston Hall estate, and modern administrative boundaries cannot safely be substituted for the medieval or early-modern manor.
Sources:
- Historic England: Barlaston Hall, National Heritage List for England entry 1374172: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1374172/ — Identifies Barlaston Hall in the parish of Barlaston, Staffordshire, gives OS Grid Reference SJ 89442 39114, and dates the present house to 1756-58.
- Planning Data: Barlaston Hall listed-building geography: https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity/31829863 — Provides the listed building point POINT (-2.15858 52.949318), used for the representative GPS coordinate.
- Stafford Borough Council: Barlaston Neighbourhood Plan: https://www.staffordbc.gov.uk/barlaston-neighbourhood-plan-final-version — States that Barlaston had an ancient manor and that in 1756 its lord replaced the manor house in the upper village with the Palladian villa.
- The National Archives Discovery: TNA/MDR record F256017: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F256017 — Registry record for Barlaston Manor, supporting the identity of the exact manor record.
- Staffordshire Past Track: Barlaston tithe map index: https://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Details.aspx?PageIndex=2&ResourceID=42306&SearchType=2&ThemeID=774 — Confirms the existence of nineteenth-century Barlaston tithe mapping material, but the available record does not establish a manor-specific territorial perimeter.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor and its manor-house site, but it should not be interpreted as the centroid of the full historical manorial territory.
- No historically grounded manor boundary polygon was found in the available evidence. The 380-acre later Barlaston Hall estate and the approximately 2,157-2,166-acre parish area are not substituted for the historical manor.