BARLESTONE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The TNA/MDR record F284916 and authority reference GB/NNAF/M308946 identify Barlestone Manor in Barlestone, Leicestershire. Independent local and historical sources confirm Barlestone as a manor, with the Earl of Stamford and Warrington recorded as lord of the manor in the late nineteenth century. The surviving building named The Manor House at 15 Bosworth Road is the strongest documented manorial-site candidate within the settlement.
Representative point: 52.6463, -1.3711
Basis: documented_manor_house — The Manor House, 15 Bosworth Road, Barlestone, National Grid Reference SK 42650 05577; listed by Historic England as a surviving early eighteenth-century house named The Manor House.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available sources establish the manor's location in Barlestone but do not provide a manor-specific mapped perimeter, estate plan, rental map, survey, enclosure schedule, or other reliable evidence from which the historical manorial extent can be reconstructed. The published acreage figures refer to the township or chapelry and must not be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register record F284916: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F284916 — Registry record supplied for Barlestone Manor; identifies the exact MDR/TNA record and location.
- Historic England: The Manor House, Barlestone - List Entry 1074116: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074116 — Identifies The Manor House at 15 Bosworth Road, Barlestone, gives National Grid Reference SK 42650 05577, and describes the surviving early eighteenth-century house.
- Barlestone Neighbourhood Plan, made June 2022: https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/7731/barlestone_neighbourhood_plan_made_version_june_2022.pdf — Local authority plan identifies The Manor House, List Entry 1074116, at 15 Bosworth Road, and provides contextual historical information on Barlestone's open fields and settlement development.
- Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1899: Barlestone: https://forebears.io/england/leicestershire/barlestone — Records Barlestone as a township, village and chapelry and states that Katherine, Countess of Stamford and Warrington, was lady of the manor; also reports the area of the township as 1,067 acres, not a demonstrated manor extent.
- Open Domesday: Barlestone: https://opendomesday.org/place/SK4205/barlestone/ — Confirms Barlestone as a Domesday settlement with land divided between two recorded landholders in 1086, providing early historical context but no surviving boundary for the later manor.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is based on the surviving building called The Manor House, not on a surviving documented manor boundary.
- The 1,067-acre figure reported for Barlestone in 1899 describes the township/chapelry and is not used as the manor's territorial extent.
- No defensible manor-specific polygon was found; the modern civil parish, township, chapelry, or settlement boundary must not be substituted.