BARLBY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The National Archives Manorial Documents Register record F239897 identifies Barlby as a manor in Hemingbrough, Yorkshire. The associated Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society records DD121/112/3 and DD121/112/43-45 are catalogued as Barlby court rolls and manorial accounts, confirming the exact manor identity and locality.
Representative point: 53.800315, -1.043384
Basis: documented_manor_house — Barlby had a medieval manor house, probably on the moated site later called the Island. The manor-house site was subsequently occupied by the later Barlby Hall, whose Historic England record gives NGR SE6310434203 and coordinates approximately 53.800315, -1.043384.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Historical lordship, described in the late 19th century
Boundary confidence: medium
Boundary basis: Bulmer's 1892 description states that the Barlby lordship comprised about 350 acres, while the wider Barlby township comprised approximately 1,332 acres. No reliable published manor map, surveyed perimeter, or parcel-by-parcel reconstruction was located. The 350-acre figure is therefore useful evidence of territorial scale but does not support a defensible polygon.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Barlby Manor, F239897: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F239897 — Manorial Documents Register record for Barlby Manor in Hemingbrough, Yorkshire; authority/reference GB/NNAF/M166761.
- Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society finding list, DD121 estate records: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/multimedia/18951/YAS_DD121.pdf — Lists DD121/112/3 as Barlby court rolls and places it within the Richard II–Henry VI rentals and accounts of the de Aton and related estates.
- Barlby Hall, Historic England listing no. 1167806: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1167806 — Documents the surviving Barlby Hall on York Road and gives the precise listed-building location, NGR SE6310434203.
- Hemingbrough – Pickerings of Yorkshire: https://www.pickeringsofyorkshire.com/east-riding/parishes-g-h/hemingbrough — States that Barlby had a medieval manor house probably standing on a moated site later called the Island, and that the later rebuilt house is known as Barlby Hall.
- Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892: Hemingbrough parish: https://www.blunham.com/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Hemingbrough/Hemingbrough92.html — Describes Barlby as a township and chapelry of Hemingbrough, gives its approximate township extent as 1,332 acres, and states that the Barlby lordship comprised about 350 acres.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point marks the documented manor-house successor site at Barlby Hall, not necessarily the exact footprint of the medieval building or the former moated Island.
- The approximately 350-acre lordship should not be confused with the approximately 1,332-acre historical Barlby township or chapelry.
- No historically grounded perimeter sufficient for polygon injection was found; the manor should be represented by a point only.