BALDERTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record, National Archives reference F244522, authority GB/NNAF/M223591, and the associated Balderton records consistently identify the historic manor of Balderton in Nottinghamshire. The archival leads include a 1587–1588 boundary certificate with Long Bennington, a 1650 Commonwealth survey, and a 1767 plan of the Lordship of Balderton.
Representative point: 53.055302, -0.773357
Basis: documented_manor_house — Balderton Old Hall, identified as the old manor house in the village, survives as Old Hall, 90 Main Street, Balderton, NG24 3NU. The coordinate is the postcode/building-site point for the documented Old Hall location.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Historic manorial extent before and around enclosure, especially 1587–1767
Boundary confidence: low
Boundary basis: The existence of a manor boundary is directly supported by the 1587–1588 certificate concerning the boundary with Long Bennington, the 1650 Commonwealth survey, and the 1767 plan of the Lordship of Balderton. Online evidence also identifies Balderton's pre-enclosure open-field system and its enclosure in 1766. However, the actual surveyed perimeter and parcel geometry of the manor are not available in the accessible online records, so no historically defensible polygon can be reconstructed without consulting the original archive plans and survey.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Balderton Manor record F244522: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244522 — Registry-level record for Balderton Manor.
- The National Archives: Certificate on boundary with Long Bennington, 1587–1588, DL 44/429: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14293131 — Direct evidence that a historically defined Balderton manor boundary was recorded against Long Bennington.
- The National Archives: Commonwealth survey, 1650, E 317/Notts/7: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14267625 — Survey record associated with the territorial and economic extent of Balderton Manor.
- Nottinghamshire Archives: Plan of the Lordship of Balderton, 1767, DD/T/194/1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14261972 — Manorial plan likely capable of showing the lordship's parcels and perimeter, but not digitised in the accessible catalogue record.
- Newark and Sherwood District Council planning report: Old Hall, 90 Main Street, Balderton: https://democracy.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/documents/s996/18-00357-FUL%20Land%20to%20the%20rear%2090%20Main%20Street%20Balderton.pdf — Identifies The Old Hall at 90 Main Street as a substantial historic dwelling at the documented manor-house location.
- Arthur Mee, The King's England: Nottinghamshire, Balderton: https://www.nottshistory.org.uk/books/mee1938/balderton.htm — States that the Old Hall stood beyond the church in the village and distinguishes it from the later Balderton Hall/New Hall.
- Nottinghamshire history: Notts Villages—Balderton: https://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/doubleday/balderton1.htm — Provides historical context for the medieval manor, its capital messuage or hall, ownership succession, and manorial agricultural organisation.
- Planning and heritage assessment referencing Balderton historical maps and enclosure: https://docs.planning.org.uk/20251219/160/T6XXH5LBI0B00/1ig7swo9mb1ozzld.pdf — Confirms the 1762 and 1767 Balderton manorial plans, the pre-enclosure open fields, and enclosure in 1766.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative coordinate is a documented manor-house site, but it is derived from the postcode/building location rather than a published precise GPS survey of the historic house.
- The historical manorial boundary should not be substituted with the modern civil-parish boundary.
- A polygon is withheld because the 1587 boundary certificate, 1650 survey, and 1767 lordship plan are catalogued but their mapped geometries are not accessible online.