BARLING MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's BARLING MANOR in Egerton, Kent matches the historically documented Barlings manor in Egerton parish. Hasted describes Barlings as a manor whose farm, Barling's Hole, lay about half a mile south-east of Egerton church, and the National Heritage List identifies the surviving manor house as Barling's Manor on Stone Hill Road, Egerton. The TNA/MDR record and associated Kent archive references are consistent with this Egerton manor, not the unrelated Barling manors in Essex or Lincolnshire.
Representative point: 51.1908, 0.7284
Basis: documented_manor_house — Barling's Manor, Stone Hill Road, Egerton, is a Grade II listed manor house at National Grid Reference TQ 90750 47050. The decimal coordinates are a WGS84 conversion of that documented NGR, rounded to reflect the precision of the evidence.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Insufficiently established; surviving references span 1632-1815
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence confirms the manor-house location and the existence of manorial rentals, surveys, court books, court rolls and quit-rent records, including the 1651 survey and later rentals. However, the online catalogue descriptions do not expose a manor map, parcel schedule, mapped rental, enclosure plan or other explicit perimeter evidence. The manor's historical extent therefore cannot be reconstructed defensibly without examining the archival documents themselves.
Sources:
- Historic England, Barling's Manor, Egerton - National Heritage List entry 1362625: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1362625 — Identifies Barling's Manor on Stone Hill Road, Egerton, Kent; gives the manor-house National Grid Reference TQ 90750 47050 and describes the listed building.
- Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Egerton parish: https://www.durobrivis.net/hasted/octavo/1798-hasted-o-07.pdf — States that Barlings was a manor in Egerton, with its farm called Barling's Hole situated about half a mile south-east of the church, and that a court baron was held for the manor.
- The National Archives, TNA/MDR record F287573: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F287573 — Registry authority record supplied for the Egerton, Kent manor identified as BARLING MANOR.
- The National Archives, catalogue record U24/M12: 1651 survey and court book, 1651-1719: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17344958 — Confirms the existence of a 1651 survey associated with the manor, but the online catalogue description does not provide its mapped boundaries.
- The National Archives, catalogue record U24/M14: 1632 rental: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17344152 — Confirms an early seventeenth-century rental associated with the manor; the online description does not provide a territorial plan or perimeter.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- Do not use the modern Egerton parish, civil parish, conservation-area boundary or the current property's advertised acreage as the historical manor boundary.
- The representative point identifies the documented manor house and is suitable for point injection, but no historically supported manor polygon is justified from the available online evidence.
- The archival 1651 survey and later rentals may contain the information needed to reconstruct the extent, but their parcel-level contents were not available in the catalogue records consulted.