BABWORTH MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The National Archives record identifies the manor as Babworth Manor in Babworth, Nottinghamshire. Historical accounts place the principal manorial residence at Babworth Hall and describe the associated post-Conquest manor as comprising Babworth, Ranby, Great Morton, Little Morton and Morton Grange.
Representative point: 53.3209, -0.9692
Basis: documented_manor_house — Babworth Hall is the documented historic country-house and estate centre associated with Babworth Manor. Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record locates Babworth Hall at grid reference SK 68760 80932; the converted coordinate is approximately 53.3209, -0.9692.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Post-Conquest medieval manor; later estate extent not precisely established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: A Bassetlaw Council historical account states that the post-Conquest manor consisted of Babworth, Ranby, Great Morton, Little Morton and outlying Morton Grange. This identifies the manor's constituent settlements but does not provide a sufficiently precise, source-mapped manorial perimeter. The modern Babworth parish boundary and the approximately 85-hectare Babworth Hall park boundary were not substituted for the historical manor boundary.
Sources:
- National Archives Discovery: Babworth Manor, F243505: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F243505 — Registry record for the exact manor entry supplied by the user.
- Babworth Neighbourhood Plan, Bassetlaw District Council: https://www.bassetlaw.gov.uk/media/kvkhwxho/babworth-neighbourhood-plan.pdf — Section 5.6 states that the whole area became a post-Conquest manor consisting of Babworth, Ranby, Great Morton, Little Morton and outlying Morton Grange.
- Babworth Hall, Historic England listing 1001078: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001078 — Documents Babworth Hall as the historic country house and estate centre, gives National Grid Reference SK 68740 81069 for the park, and describes the associated historic grounds.
- Babworth Hall, Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record MNT18901: https://her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNT18901 — Locates Babworth Hall at SK 68760 80932 and documents the surviving eighteenth-century country house.
- The History of Retford, chapter on Babworth, 1828: https://www.nottshistory.org.uk/books/piercy1828/retford12.htm — Provides historical context for Babworth as a medieval manor and records the extent and lordship history of the manor's lands.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No authoritative manor map, survey, rental map or explicit historical perimeter was located for Babworth Manor.
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor but should not be interpreted as the full territorial extent.
- Babworth Hall's listed park boundary and the modern civil-parish boundary are not equivalent to the historical manorial boundary.