BARCOTE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry identity is securely matched to Barcote Manor in the Barcote hamlet of Buckland. Historic and modern sources distinguish Barcote Manor from the separate manors of Buckland, Carswell and Newton. The supplied 1654 rental reference is a relevant Royal Berkshire Archives lead for the same Barcote manor record.
Representative point: 51.6784, -1.5390
Basis: documented_manor_house — Historic England identifies the surviving Barcote Manor house at National Grid Reference SU 31968 97842. This is the documented manor-house site in Barcote, Buckland; the coordinate is represented at approximately 4 decimal places.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available web evidence establishes the manor-house location and identifies Barcote as one of the historic manors of Buckland, but does not provide a manor-specific boundary map, mapped rental parcels, survey, enclosure material, or other sufficiently explicit perimeter evidence. The published figure of 580 acres refers to the hamlet of Barcote in a later parish description and cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- Barcote Manor, Buckland — Historic England, National Heritage List entry 1368379: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1368379 — Identifies Barcote Manor in the civil parish of Buckland, gives the historic county context of Berkshire, and records NGR SU 31968 97842 for the manor house.
- The Manor of Buckland: A Brief History — St Mary the Virgin, Buckland Heritage Report: https://buckland-livinghistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Heritage-Report.pdf — States that the historic parish consisted of four main manors, including Barcote, and distinguishes Barcote from the manor of Buckland. It also records the long-standing association of Barcote Manor and the Holcott family with Buckland.
- Kelly's Directory of Berkshire, Buckland entry: https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/api/collection/p16445coll4/id/304753/download — Identifies Barcote as a distinct manor in Buckland, records the Holcot ownership of the manor from 1292 to 1575, and names the trustees of William West as lords of the manor of Barcote in the late nineteenth century.
- The National Archives Discovery: TNA/MDR record F240774: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F240774 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identity, primary name Barcote Manor, location Buckland, Berkshire, and authority/reference GB/NNAF/M204577.
- Royal Berkshire Archives: rental with other manors, 1654, D/EEL/E35/16: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14248953 — Supplied archival research lead for a 1654 rental involving Barcote Manor and other manors; the catalogue record supports further archival investigation but does not expose a boundary polygon in the available web result.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The present administrative location is Oxfordshire, but Barcote was historically in Berkshire; the registry's Berkshire location is historically appropriate.
- The documented surviving house dates from about 1876, while the manor itself is medieval or early-modern in origin; the point represents the documented manor-house site, not necessarily the exact site of every earlier medieval manorial residence.
- No historically defensible manorial boundary polygon was located in the available evidence. Do not inject a parish, hamlet, postcode, modern estate, or 580-acre Barcote hamlet boundary as the manor extent.