BAMFORD MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The exact record is identified by TNA/MDR record F253256 and authority GB/NNAF/M271292, while the Derbyshire Record Office catalogue explicitly describes D267/232 as the court verdict of the Manor of Bamford, with the court to be held at a house in Bamford. Historical local material also distinguishes Bamford as one of four manors within the parish of Hathersage, confirming that this is the Derbyshire Bamford manor rather than a same-named manor elsewhere.
Representative point: 53.347001, -1.6901201
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Central Bamford settlement point. The manor is explicitly associated with Bamford in Hathersage parish, and the 1756 manorial court notice specifies a court venue at a house in Bamford. No securely identified surviving medieval or early-modern manor-house site was found, so the village centre is used as a supported manorial-centre proxy rather than as a documented manor house.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to eighteenth century; no perimeter reconstructed
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor's association with Bamford and its separate manorial identity, but no authoritative manor map, survey, rental plan, enclosure record, or other source supplying a defensible perimeter for Bamford Manor was located. The modern civil parish or historical parish of Bamford/Hathersage has not been substituted for the manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: BAMFORD MANOR, TNA/MDR record F253256: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F253256 — Registry record identifying the manor as Bamford Manor, located in Hathersage, Derbyshire, under authority GB/NNAF/M271292.
- Derbyshire Record Office: Court verdict of the manor of Bamford, with notice to the bailiff to call a court leet and court baron, D267/232: https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/CALMVIEW/Record.aspx?id=D267%2F232&src=CalmView.Catalog — Explicitly names the Manor of Bamford and records the July 1756 court venue at the house of George Eyre in Bamford.
- Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire: North Lees Hall: https://texts.wishful-thinking.org.uk/Tilley/NorthLeesHall.html — States that within the parish of Hathersage there were four manors: Padley, Stony Middleton, Bamford, and Hathersage, supporting Bamford's separate manorial identity.
- Hathersage Conservation Area Appraisal, Peak District National Park Authority: https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/68247/HATHERSAGE-ADOPTED-APPRAISAL_sections-1-4.pdf — Provides historical context for the Hathersage area, including the medieval relationship of Bamford to the Hathersage lordship and the later territorial distinction of Bamford as a named settlement and manor context.
- Gazetteer of British Place Names: Bamford, Derbyshire: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Bamford,_Derbyshire_2211 — Provides the Bamford settlement coordinate used as the supported manorial-centre proxy: approximately 53.347001, -1.6901201.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is not a documented manor-house location; it is a historically supported centre point for Bamford manor context.
- No defensible historical polygon for the manorial land extent was found.
- The modern Bamford civil-parish boundary, Hathersage parish boundary, or any modern administrative boundary must not be treated as the boundary of Bamford Manor.
- The separately named Bamford Hall/Bamford House references found online were not sufficiently demonstrated to be the historic manor house of this exact registry manor and were therefore not used as the representative point.