BAGENDON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record's Bagendon Manor is confirmed by the Victoria County History account of Bagendon Manor, which explicitly identifies the historical form Benwedene, traces its manorial ownership, and discusses its surviving manor court records. The TNA/MDR reference and the supplied Longleat and Manchester court-record leads correspond to this same manor.
Representative point: 51.7590, -1.9844
Basis: documented_manor_house — Bagendon Manor or Manor Farm, the documented manor house in Bagendon Village, Historic England list entry 1090269, National Grid Reference SP 01170 06704.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; particularly documented in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The VCH establishes the manor's agricultural and manorial extent, including the whole-manor common pastures, demesne, tenant holdings, Bagendon Grove, Moor, and other named lands. It records a 1746 survey of 903 acres in the parish divided among 13 tenements and a 1792 enclosure affecting about 620 acres. However, the accessible evidence does not provide a sufficiently clear manor-specific perimeter, and the manor did not simply coincide with the parish: the parish also contained separate freehold, glebe, St John's Hospital, mill, and other estates. A modern parish or conservation-area boundary would therefore be an unsafe substitute.
Sources:
- Victoria County History, Gloucestershire Volume XVI, Bagendon: https://www.history.ac.uk/sites/default/files/gloucestershire-bagendon.pdf — Identifies Bagendon as Benwedene; gives the manor's ownership history, medieval land assessment, agricultural extent, 1746 survey, 1792 enclosure, manorial court evidence, and references to the Longleat Thynne Papers and Manchester court roll.
- Bagendon Manor or Manor Farm, Historic England List Entry 1090269: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1090269 — Documents the surviving early eighteenth-century manor house in Bagendon Village and gives National Grid Reference SP 01170 06704, used to derive the representative point.
- TNA/MDR record F241530, Bagendon Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241530 — Registry record for the exact manor, with authority/reference GB/NNAF/M225699.
- Bagendon Conservation Area Map, Cotswold District Council: https://www.cotswold.gov.uk/media/tt5dn12v/bagendon-conservation-area-map.pdf — Confirms the spatial relationship of Bagendon Manor/Manor Farm, Bagendon village, the church, Home Farm, Bagendon House, and surrounding features; not used as a manor boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable manor-specific historical boundary polygon was located in the accessible sources.
- The Bagendon civil-parish or conservation-area boundary must not be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
- The representative coordinates identify the documented manor-house site and should not be interpreted as the territorial boundary of the manor.