BARDOLPHS MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The exact supplied registry name, TNA/MDR record F238013, authority reference GB/NNAF/M167957 and location Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk identify the target record. Historical and local sources confirm a surviving manor-house site in Holme, but do not provide a complete parcel-level history sufficient to reconstruct the manor's territorial boundary.
Representative point: 52.956855, 0.542775
Basis: documented_manor_house — The Manor House, 3 Chalk Pit Road, Holme-next-the-Sea, is identified by the local parish record as the manor house; the associated postcode centroid is at approximately 52.956855, 0.542775. A local historical account describes the Holme manor house as an early sixteenth-century building, rebuilt at the front in 1854.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: insufficiently established; likely medieval or early post-medieval manor extent represented in later records
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The parish comprised several distinct manors, including Hunstanton-with-Mustrells, Ringstead-with-Holme, Northhall or Barnards, Holkham, Berry's and Hood's. Available sources establish the manor-house location but do not identify a documented boundary, mapped estate perimeter, or parcel schedule specifically attributable to Bardolphs Manor. The modern parish boundary therefore cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives Discovery: F238013: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F238013 — Supplied catalogue record for the exact registry manor record BARDOLPHS MANOR, located at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
- Holme-next-the-Sea Parish Council minutes: https://www.holme-next-the-sea.co.uk/documents/hntspcnov21.pdf — Identifies The Manor House, 3 Chalk Pit Road, Holme-next-the-Sea, PE36 6LW.
- The Village in 1951: Holme-next-the-Sea: https://www.holme-next-the-sea.co.uk/ryderarc/subvillagein1951.htm — Describes Holme Manor as an early sixteenth-century manor house, with the front rebuilt in 1854, and notes its long association with the Blyth family.
- Kelly's Directory / Holme-next-the-Sea entry: https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/api/collection/p16445coll4/id/243585/download — States that Holme parish contained several separate manors, including Hunstanton-with-Mustrells, Ringstead-with-Holme, Northhall or Barnards, Holkham, Berry's and Hood's; this prevents treating the whole parish as Bardolphs Manor.
- Holme-next-the-Sea Heritage Report: https://holmentspc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/D17-Heritage-Report_Final-23-04-2019.pdf — Provides historical context for Holme's medieval lordship, settlement, parish boundaries and landscape, but does not supply a Bardolphs Manor perimeter.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor-house identification is supported at medium confidence because the accessible evidence identifies a manor house in Holme but does not explicitly equate the surviving house with the catalogued name BARDOLPHS MANOR.
- No historical polygon is returned: the parish contained multiple manors and no reliable Bardolphs-specific boundary source was found.
- The coordinate is suitable as a representative manor-house point, not as the centre or boundary of the entire historical manorial estate.