BANGOR MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry names Bangor Manor in historic Flintshire and supplies Bangor-on-Dee, Bangor Is-coed and Bangor Monachorum as alternative names. These names identify Bangor Is-y-coed/Bangor-on-Dee in the detached Flintshire area of Maelor Saesneg, rather than another Bangor. The 1444 court-roll lead is catalogued with other manors and associated with the Hanmer records, supporting the same local manorial context.
Representative point: 53.0025, -2.9123
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — St Dunawd's Church and the adjacent Bangor-on-Dee settlement centre at OS grid SJ388454. The church occupies the historic ecclesiastical and settlement centre of Bangor Is-coed and is the best surviving documented central site associated with the manor-name locality; no separate manor house or manor-house site has been identified.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available evidence establishes the location of Bangor township/parish and its historical centre, but does not provide a manor-specific map, perambulation, survey, rental or explicit territorial description for Bangor Manor. The historic parish of Bangor Is-y-coed comprised five townships—Bangor, Eyton, Royton, Sesswick and Pickhill—and must not be substituted wholesale for the manor. The 1699 parish description gives parish boundaries, not demonstrably the boundaries of Bangor Manor. No defensible historical manor polygon is therefore returned.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Bangor Manor, TNA/MDR record F239826: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F239826 — Registry record for Bangor Manor with authority/reference GB/NNAF/M171737 and historical-name context.
- The National Archives: 1444 court rolls with other manors, reference p110 1661 / N14250395: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14250395 — Existing research lead for a 1444 court-roll record held by the National Library of Wales and associated with the Hanmer material.
- Clwyd Family History Society: Bangor is y Coed: https://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/en/churches/bangor-is-y-coed-2022-08-27 — Identifies Bangor Is-y-coed as the historic Flintshire parish in Maelor Saesneg and records that the parish comprised the Flintshire township of Bangor plus the Denbighshire townships of Eyton, Royton, Sesswick and Pickhill.
- Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust: Wrexham Churches Survey—Bangor Is-y-coed: https://heneb.org.uk/archive/cpat/Archive/churches/wrexham/16706.htm — States that St Dunawd's Church probably occupies the site of the early church or Celtic clas at Bangor Is-y-coed, supporting the site as the historic local centre.
- St Dunawd's Church, Bangor-on-Dee, Cadw listing and coordinates: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300001644-church-of-st-dunawd-bangor-is-y-coed — Provides OS grid SJ388454 and coordinates 53.0025, -2.9123 for the historic church at Bangor Is-coed.
- Bangor-on-Dee: description of Bangor parish in 1699: https://bangor-on-dee.co.uk/bangor_parish_1699/index.htm — Provides the period description and dimensions of the historic parish, including surrounding parishes and boundary landmarks; used only as contextual evidence, not as a manor boundary.
- Alfred N. Palmer, Notes on the Early History of Bangor Is-y-Coed: https://www.kingarthur.justwizard.com/Y_Cymmrodor/Bangor_Is_Coed_vol10.pdf — Discusses the historical parish, its five townships, the distinction between Maelor Saesneg and Maelor Gymraeg, and the separate manorial histories of the townships.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The returned point is a historically supported local/manorial centre, not a documented manor-house location.
- No manor-specific territorial boundary has been located; the parish boundary and the five-township parish extent must not be injected as the manor polygon.
- The historic location was in the detached Flintshire area of Maelor Saesneg; the modern administrative area is Wrexham County Borough.