BARLOW MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's alternative name Barley matches the historical Barlow/Barley family and the Derbyshire manor record. The Derbyshire Record Office catalogue explicitly identifies a 1817 Act for enclosing land in the Manor of Barlow in the townships of Great Barlow and Little Barlow, in the parishes of Staveley and Dronfield. This matches the supplied registry location and associated place, Staveley, Derbyshire. The 1600 valuation and 1610 survey held by Nottinghamshire Archives are consistent research leads for the Cavendish-Bentinck/Barley estate.
Representative point: 53.2691, -1.4851
Basis: documented_manor_site — Approximate site of the former Barlow Hall, the historical family home and manorial seat, described by the Barlow Parish Council as lying east of St Lawrence Church in Sud Valley. The nearby Hall Farm name preserves the site's association; the coordinate is based on the mapped Hall Farm locality rather than a surviving building footprint.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Historical manor extent documented principally by the 1817 enclosure legislation; earlier extent not recovered as a georeferenced perimeter.
Boundary confidence: medium
Boundary basis: The 1817 Barlow Inclosure Act explicitly covered land in the Manor of Barlow in Great Barlow and Little Barlow, spanning the parishes of Staveley and Dronfield. Derbyshire archive map holdings identify a 1630 East and West of Barlow map and 1817 Barlow Parliamentary Enclosure Plans, but the accessible evidence does not provide enough verified perimeter coordinates to reconstruct the manorial boundary without inventing a polygon. The manor should not be substituted with the modern civil parish boundary.
Sources:
- Derbyshire Record Office catalogue: Printed copy of Act for enclosing land in the manor of Barlow in the townships of Great Barlow and Little Barlow in the parishes of Staveley and Dronfield: https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?id=D267%2F99&src=CalmView.catalog — Directly identifies the Manor of Barlow and its historical lands in Great Barlow and Little Barlow, within the parishes of Staveley and Dronfield; Act dated 1817.
- Derbyshire Record Office, Derbyshire maps holdings: https://www.belper-research.com/records_matlock/Maps%20Holdings.pdf — Lists the 1630 copy of William Senior's map of East and West Barlow and the 1817 Barlow Parliamentary Enclosure Plans, confirming that historically relevant mapping survives in archive holdings but was not available here as a georeferenced polygon.
- Barlow Parish Council: About Our Parish: https://www.barlowvillage.co.uk/about-our-parish.html — States that the Barlow family home, Barlow Hall, stood in the Sud Valley east of the church, that the family were owners of the village for several generations, and that Great Barlow and Little Barlow were historical divisions.
- Geograph: Barlow, Hall Farm: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5952689 — Provides a georeferenced locality for Hall Farm at approximately 53.26908, -1.48507, used as the approximate surviving site reference for the former Barlow Hall/manorial seat.
- Historic England: Barlow Woodseats, Barlow, Derbyshire, list entry 1087802: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1087802 — Confirms the historic Barlow Woodseats house and its location in Barlow. It is a related surviving manorial/estate house, but the documentary evidence used for the representative point identifies the former Barlow Hall as the principal Barley family home.
- The National Archives: TNA/MDR record F253258: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F253258 — Supplied registry record for Barlow Manor, associated with Staveley, Derbyshire and authority reference GB/NNAF/M271294.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No defensible historical manor polygon was recovered from the accessible sources. The 1817 Act establishes the relevant townships and parishes but does not by itself supply a coordinate-ready perimeter.
- The representative coordinate is an approximate documented manor-site location for the former Barlow Hall, not the centre of the modern civil parish and not a modern administrative boundary.
- Barlow Woodseats Hall is a related surviving historic house in Barlow, but local documentary evidence distinguishes it from the former Barlow Hall, the Barley family's principal home and manorial seat.