BACHE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry names Bache Manor at Bache, Cheshire, with the historical form Bach. Independent historical evidence identifies the manor or lordship of Bach/Bache and associates its capital messuage with Bache Hall. The location is consistent with the historic Bache township north of Chester and is not confused with another same-named manor.
Representative point: 53.2064545, -2.8957925
Basis: documented_manor_house — Bache Hall, the surviving early-eighteenth-century successor to the earlier manor house associated with the manor of Bach/Bache. Historic England gives the building's National Grid Reference as SJ 40227 68103; the decimal coordinates are corroborated by the Parks & Gardens record.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence securely locates the manor house and identifies Bache as a historic township/manorial locality. A nineteenth-century directory reports the township as 96 acres, but that administrative township figure cannot safely be treated as the exact medieval or post-medieval manorial extent. No authoritative manor map, rental plan, enclosure plan, or other source was found that defines the Bache Manor perimeter sufficiently for a defensible polygon.
Sources:
- Bache Hall, National Heritage List for England, entry 1390622: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1390622 — Identifies Bache Hall at Countess Way, Bache, gives National Grid Reference SJ 40227 68103, and describes the surviving c.1720 hall.
- Bache Hall, Parks & Gardens UK: https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/bache-hall — Identifies Bache Hall as the principal building of the Bache estate, records the historical manor succession, discusses the earlier house and the Bache Hall estate, and supplies decimal coordinates 53.2064545, -2.8957925.
- Iter Lancastrense, historical account of Cheshire antiquities: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Iter_lancastrense%3B_a_poem%2C_written_A.D._1636_%28IA_iterlancastrense00jamerich%29.pdf — Discusses Edward Whitby's estate, capital messuage, manor or lordship of Bach, and identifies Bache Hall/The Beach as the associated mansion.
- Kelly's Directory of Cheshire, Bache entry: https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/api/collection/p16445coll4/id/59689/download — Describes Bache or Bach as a township in St Oswald's parish, locates Bache Hall within it, identifies the lord of the manor, and reports the township area as 96 acres.
- The National Archives Discovery record F286817: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F286817 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identification: Bache Manor, historical name Bach, Bache, Cheshire, authority GB/NNAF/M312859.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is the documented manor-house site, not the centroid of the historical manorial lands.
- The 96-acre figure belongs to the historic township description and has not been used as a substitute boundary for the manor.
- Modern civil-parish, hospital, university, road, postcode, and estate boundaries were not used as the manor boundary.