BAGTOR MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The exact record is identified with the historic Domesday manor of Bagathora/Bagtor in Ilsington, Devon. Heritage Gateway explicitly describes Bagtor House as the site of the Domesday manor, while Historic England identifies Bagtor House and Bagtor Barton as the historic manor-house and manorial-farm complex. The association with Ilsington matches the registry location and authority reference.
Representative point: 50.5633, -3.7440
Basis: documented_manor_house — Bagtor House, Ilsington, at National Grid Reference SX7655175172, is a documented historic manor house and is identified by the Devon Historic Environment Record as the site of the Domesday manor of Bagathora/Bagtor.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established; evidence spans the Domesday period through the nineteenth century
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence confirms the manor's location but does not provide a complete, reliable perimeter of the historical manorial lands. Historic England records that parts of Westabrook and approximately 255 acres of Haytor Down were historically associated with Bagtor Manor, and a nineteenth-century manor book records a perambulation between Bagtor and Ilsington, but the accessible sources do not map enough of the full Bagtor boundary to justify a polygon. The parish boundary and modern administrative boundaries have not been substituted.
Sources:
- Bagtor House, Ilsington - Historic England List Entry 1240450: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1240450 — Documents Bagtor House in Ilsington at NGR SX7655175178 and identifies its sixteenth-century manor-house history and association with the Ford family.
- Bagtor House, Ilsington - Devon Historic Environment Record / Heritage Gateway MDV8074: https://heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=104&uid=MDV8074 — States that Bagtor House is a small Domesday manor developed into a mansion and records the medieval farmstead and site of the Domesday manor of Bagathora.
- Westabrook Farm and threshing barn, Ilsington - Historic England List Entry 1467657: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1467657 — Explains the historical relationship between Bagtor Manor, Bagtor House, Bagtor Barton and Westabrook; notes that Westabrook may represent an earlier manor-house site and that approximately 130 acres around Bagtor House and Barton correspond with Domesday and tithe evidence.
- Haytor Down - Ilsington Commons Registration evidence: https://acraew.org.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/Devon/HAYTOR%20DOWN%20-%20ISLINGTON%20-%20TEIGNBRIDGE%20DISTRICT%20NO.CL.25%281%29.pdf — Quotes the nineteenth-century Manor Book entitled 'Manor of Ilsington and Bagtor', records a 1835 perambulation of the Bagtor-Ilsington boundary, and states that about 255 acres of Haytor Down formed part of the Manor of Bagtor.
- Bagtor in the Domesday Book - Open Domesday: https://opendomesday.org/place/SX7675/bagtor/ — Confirms the Domesday settlement/manor of Bagtor in Devon, held by Nicholas the Bowman, with the recorded 1086 land and resource assessment.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor's documented location is secure, but the original medieval centre may have involved Westabrook as well as the later Bagtor House/Barton complex.
- No complete historical Bagtor Manor boundary map or sufficiently detailed parcel reconstruction was found in the accessible sources; therefore no polygon is supplied.
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor record, not for defining the full extent of its historical lands.