Historical names: Aclome (Manor)
Location: Acklam with Barthorpe, Yorkshire
Places / associated places: Acklam with Barthorpe, Yorkshire
Listed in Domesday Book: Yes
Location & Extent
GPS Location & Recorded Land Areas
Representative GPS point: 54.0445, -0.81182
Identity: confirmed — The record is the East Riding manor associated with Acklam in the historical township of Acklam with Barthorpe, now in North Yorkshire/Ryedale, and not West Acklam at Middlesbrough. Domesday and later local evidence distinguish Acklam and Barthorpe as separate components, while the nineteenth-century description identifies the manor of Acklam as belonging to the Crown and separately describes a Barthorpe estate as another manor.
Representative point: 54.04450, -0.81182
Basis: documented_manor_house — Wood House Farm, west of Acklam village, is identified on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map as also being called the Manor House. The location is in OS grid square SE7761, with a geotagged position at approximately SE779616.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Historical manor; precise period of the surviving boundary evidence is not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available evidence establishes the manor's location and distinguishes the Acklam manor from the separate Barthorpe manor/estate, but does not provide a securely recoverable perimeter for the manorial land. The 1777 map, 1792-1793 survey and 1828-1844 court papers are relevant archive leads, but their publicly available catalogue descriptions do not expose enough mapped boundary information to reconstruct a defensible polygon. The modern civil-parish boundary and the full 2,358-acre township area have therefore not been substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Acklam Manor, TNA/MDR F240228: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F240228 — Registry record identifying Acklam Manor and its authority/reference context.
- Acklam, North Yorkshire, Geograph Britain and Ireland: https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Acklam---East-Riding-of-Yorkshire — Identifies the East Riding Acklam, distinguishes the historical Acklam and Barthorpe components, and states that Wood House Farm was also called the Manor House on the 1850 map.
- Wood House Farm, Acklam, Geograph photograph 261900: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/261900 — Provides the geotagged WGS84 position 54.04450, -0.81182 in OS grid square SE7761 for the documented Wood House Farm/Manor House location.
- Acklam Parish, Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892: https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/api/collection/p16445coll4/id/324124/download — States that the township contained 2,358 acres, that the manor belonged to the Crown, and that the 975-acre Barthorpe estate formed a distinct manor.
- 1777 map of Acklam, The National Archives, MPE 1/520: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14290397 — Archive catalogue lead for a map showing field names and adjacent owners; the catalogue record does not expose a sufficiently detailed manor perimeter for polygon reconstruction.
- 1792-1793 survey of Acklam, The National Archives, CRES 39/201: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14269696 — Archive catalogue lead for survey answers potentially relevant to estate extent, without publicly exposed boundary detail.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is based on the documented historical Manor House location at Wood House Farm, not on a modern administrative boundary.
- No historical manor polygon has been returned because the available public evidence does not securely define the perimeter.
- The separate Barthorpe manor/estate, described as approximately 975 acres in the late nineteenth century, has not been merged into Acklam Manor.
About the Manor
Acklam Manor, also recorded as Aclome, was the manor associated with Acklam in the township of Acklam with Barthorpe, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, later administratively within North Yorkshire. The place should not be conflated with West Acklam, now part of Middlesbrough. Domesday Book records Acklam and Barthorpe as separate components with different pre-Conquest and post-Conquest holders. The Acklam component included land of Siward and land of Orm; the Barthorpe component included land of Waltheof and land of Forne. By the late nineteenth century, the manor of Acklam was reported as belonging to the Crown, while a separate estate in Barthorpe was described as a distinct manor belonging to Lady Mary G. Vyner. This distinction is important because nineteenth- and early twentieth-century directories also name private landowners or lords of separate estates in the township; those references have not been treated as evidence that they held the Crown manor of Acklam.
Ownership / Holder Account
The secure public evidence is discontinuous. Domesday Book shows that in 1066 the Acklam area was divided between Siward and Orm, while Barthorpe was divided between Waltheof and Forne. In 1086 the corresponding holdings were recorded under Count Robert of Mortain for Orm's Acklam land and Waltheof's Barthorpe land, under two unnamed men for Siward's Acklam land, and under Odo the bowman for Forne's Barthorpe land. The sources establish these successive lordship positions but do not document the precise conveyances or the later medieval consolidation into the manor recorded as Acklam Manor. A late nineteenth-century description explicitly states that the manor of Acklam belonged to the Crown. The same description separately identifies a 975-acre estate in Barthorpe as a distinct manor belonging to Lady Mary G. Vyner; that estate has therefore not been merged into the Crown manor's descent. No securely sourced public evidence was located for the intervening medieval, early modern, or twentieth-century descent of the Crown manor itself.
Records & References
Sources and references mentioning this manor/title which are not necessarily conveyances or transfers.
3 records found · showing 1–3.
1828-1844: court papers, incl jury lists (in file with other correspondence)
Held by: The National Archives
1792-1793: survey (answers to articles of enquiry)
Held by: The National Archives
1777: map (shows field names and adjacent owners)
Held by: The National Archives
Further information: See Former reference in The National Archives: LRRO 1/415
Conveyance & Descent
First holder to present holder: blood proximity & distance travelled
First recorded holder: Siward
Present holder:
Recorded title journey: 8 holder entries in this manor's saved Conveyance & Descent history.
No recorded holder currently has a usable saved direct-blood or collateral-blood relationship path from which to calculate proximity percentages.
First recorded holder → present holder
A usable saved blood relationship path between the first recorded holder and the present holder has not yet been recorded, so that first-to-present genealogical distance cannot be calculated.
Transfer: Earlier holder recorded in Domesday Book; the subsequent transfer or forfeiture of this Acklam holding is not documented by the source used.
Shared holding: Acklam component: pre-Conquest holding
Domesday evidence records Siward as the lord in 1066 of one Acklam holding. The source does not establish that this component was identical in extent to the later Crown manor, nor does it record the conveyance by which it came into the hands of the two unnamed men recorded in 1086.
Source: Open Domesday, Acklam, Yorkshire, Phillimore reference Yorkshire 29E29, owners section. — source link
Transfer: In 1086 the holding was recorded under Count Robert of Mortain; the precise conveyance or mechanism of change is not stated in the cited source.
Shared holding: Acklam component: Orm's land
Previous holder: Orm, Pre-Conquest lord of an Acklam holding
Domesday records Orm as lord in 1066 and Count Robert of Mortain as tenant-in-chief and lord in 1086 for this Acklam component. The entry describes the land as waste in 1086. This is evidence for a component of the later locality, not proof that Count Robert held the complete later Crown manor of Acklam.
Source: Open Domesday, Acklam, Yorkshire, Phillimore reference Yorkshire 5E63, owners section. — source link
Transfer: The source records this holding in 1086 but does not identify the preceding transfer from Siward or the later descent.
Holding arrangement: Joint — Joint holding by two unnamed men; the individual shares are not stated.
Shared holding: Acklam component: land of men, two
Previous holder: Siward, Earl of Northumbria
Domesday records two unnamed men as tenant-in-chief and lords in 1086 of another Acklam component, formerly held by Siward in 1066. The source does not establish whether this component later became part of the Crown manor, although the locality and manor identity are consistent with that possibility.
Source: Open Domesday, Acklam, Yorkshire, Phillimore reference Yorkshire 29E29, owners section. — source link
Count Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain, Domesday tenant-in-chief
Transfer: Recorded as tenant-in-chief and lord in 1086 of the Acklam component formerly attributed to Orm; the later descent is not established by the cited public sources.
Shared holding: Acklam component: land of Count Robert of Mortain
Previous holder: Orm, Pre-Conquest lord of an Acklam holding
Count Robert of Mortain held one Acklam component in 1086. The source identifies him as both tenant-in-chief and lord and describes the land as waste. No later source used here securely traces this component into the medieval or modern Crown manor.
Source: Open Domesday, Acklam, Yorkshire, Phillimore reference Yorkshire 5E63, owners section. — source link
Waltheof, Anglo-Saxon earl, pre-Conquest lord of a Barthorpe holding
Transfer: The Barthorpe component formerly under Waltheof was recorded in 1086 under Count Robert of Mortain; the precise conveyance is not stated.
Shared holding: Barthorpe component: land of Count Robert of Mortain
Previous holder: Waltheof, Anglo-Saxon earl, pre-Conquest lord of a Barthorpe holding
Domesday records Waltheof as the 1066 lord of one Barthorpe component and Count Robert of Mortain as tenant-in-chief and lord in 1086. The entry describes the holding as waste in 1086. This component is relevant to the place named in the manor record but cannot be assumed to have formed part of the later Acklam Manor without further medieval evidence.
Source: Open Domesday, Barthorpe [Grange], Yorkshire, Phillimore reference Yorkshire 5E64, owners section. — source link
Forne, son of Sigulf, Pre-Conquest lord of a Barthorpe holding
Transfer: The Barthorpe component formerly under Forne was recorded in 1086 under Odo the bowman; the precise conveyance is not stated.
Shared holding: Barthorpe component: land of Odo the bowman
Co-holder: Odo the bowman
Previous holder: Forne, son of Sigulf, Pre-Conquest lord of a Barthorpe holding
Domesday records Forne, son of Sigulf, as the 1066 lord of one Barthorpe component and Odo the bowman as tenant-in-chief and lord in 1086. The holding comprised two ploughlands and was waste in 1086. No later descent into the manor recorded as Acklam Manor has been established.
Source: Open Domesday, Barthorpe [Grange], Yorkshire, Phillimore reference Yorkshire 26E2, owners section. — source link
Transfer: Recorded as tenant-in-chief and lord in 1086 of the Barthorpe component formerly held by Forne; the later descent is not established.
Shared holding: Barthorpe component: land of Odo the bowman
Co-holder: Forne, son of Sigulf
Previous holder: Forne, son of Sigulf, Pre-Conquest lord of a Barthorpe holding
Odo the bowman held one Barthorpe component in 1086. The source gives no later descent for this holding and no basis for treating Odo as a holder of the complete later Acklam Manor.
Source: Open Domesday, Barthorpe [Grange], Yorkshire, Phillimore reference Yorkshire 26E2, owners section. — source link
Transfer: The late nineteenth-century published description states that the manor belonged to the Crown. The date of acquisition and the intervening descent are not stated.
Shared holding: Acklam Manor: Crown holding
A late nineteenth-century account of Acklam parish states expressly that the manor belonged to the Crown. The same account lists several private landowners in the township and separately describes a 975-acre estate in Barthorpe as a distinct manor belonging to Lady Mary G. Vyner. Accordingly, this entry is limited to the Crown's Acklam Manor and does not include the Vyner Barthorpe estate. The source does not reveal when or by what instrument the Crown acquired the manor.
Source: Bulmer's Directory and Gazetteer of East Yorkshire, entry for Acklam Parish, published 1892, statement that 'the manor belongs to the Crown'. — source link
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