BARNARDS MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The TNA/MDR record is located at Great Doddington, Northamptonshire, and the Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record specifically identifies Barnard's Manor as one of the two medieval manors of Great Doddington. Medieval evidence associates it with Robert Chaumpaigne/Champayne in 1317 and William de Champayne in 1242.
Representative point: 52.27510, -0.70864
Basis: documented_manor_site — Approximate position of the medieval manorial site associated in archaeological reporting with Barnard's Manor, at or near 23 High Street, Great Doddington; the site lies in the medieval village core approximately 400 metres east of St Nicholas's Church.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early post-medieval; no securely mapped period established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence confirms the manor's location within Great Doddington and records associated manorial features, including a medieval deer park and watermill, but does not provide a recoverable boundary map or sufficiently explicit parcel-by-parcel description for Barnard's Manor. The 1766 enclosure and later estate/parish maps cannot safely be treated as the boundary of this exact manor without further archival examination.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register: Barnards Manor, F278737: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F278737 — Official MDR/TNA record for the manor identified as Barnards Manor at Great Doddington, Northamptonshire.
- Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record: Great Doddington, monument record 3721: https://her.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNN5540 — States that Great Doddington had two manors and identifies Barnard's Manor in connection with Robert Chaumpaigne's 1317 complaint concerning his house, park and cattle; also records the uncertain location of the medieval deer park and cites the 1820 Great Doddington Estate Map.
- Archaeological Excavation and Watching Brief: 23 High Street, Great Doddington: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-751-1/dissemination/pdf/archaeol2-107627_1.pdf — Identifies Barnard's Manor, held by William de Champayne in 1242, and places the investigated medieval village-core site approximately 400 metres east of St Nicholas's Church; the HER gives the site centre as SP 88416 64892.
- Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record: No. 3 Church Lane (The Old Vicarage): https://her.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNN111050 — Documents a separate surviving building traditionally identified as a manor house, close to the church, demonstrating the presence of more than one manorial site in Great Doddington; its attribution specifically to Barnard's Manor is not established.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The exact medieval manor-house site of Barnard's Manor is not conclusively identified in the available sources.
- Great Doddington contained two manors; the surviving Old Vicarage/manor-house near the church should not automatically be assigned to Barnard's Manor.
- No historically defensible polygon for the territorial extent of Barnard's Manor was found. The medieval deer park associated with the manor is explicitly recorded as having an unknown location.
- The representative coordinates are approximate and should be treated as a research lead rather than a surveyed manor-house coordinate.