BARLEY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The supplied alternative name Barlow matches the manor of Barley in Barlow, within Brayton, Yorkshire. A 1415 Feet of Fines record explicitly identifies the property as 'the manor of Barley' and standardizes its place as Barlow in Brayton. The Victoria County History independently identifies Barlow Manor and its associated manor house, Barlow Hall.
Representative point: 53.7528, -1.0249
Basis: documented_manor_house — Approximate location of the documented Barlow Hall manor-house site, whose surviving foundations and associated garden earthworks are scheduled. The hall itself was demolished in the early 1970s.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence establishes the manor's location at Barlow Hall and indicates that its attached lands were substantial, possibly including the entire Barlow township. However, the available sources do not provide a sufficiently explicit, source-mappable historical perimeter for the manorial land itself. The documented township extent cannot safely be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: BARLEY MANOR, record F244654: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244654 — Registry record identifying Barley Manor in Brayton, Yorkshire, with historical name Barlow.
- Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/280/153, number 17: https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_280_153.shtml — 1415 record describing the property as 'the manor of Barley' and locating it at Barlow in Brayton, Yorkshire.
- Victoria County History: Barlow: https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history/counties-z/barlow — Identifies Barlow as the relevant township and describes its geographic setting and overall township dimensions.
- Victoria County History: Barlow Manors and Estates: https://www.history.ac.uk/sites/default/files/barlow_manors_and_estates.pdf — Documents Barlow Manor, its descent, the substantial lands attached to it, and Barlow Hall as the manor hall; estimates the manorial estate at approximately 1,600–1,800 acres in 1782 and records 1,787 acres in 1847.
- Historic England: Medieval settlement and early post-medieval garden earthworks around Barlow Hall, List Entry 1018403: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1018403 — Provides the official location of the Barlow Hall manor-house site at National Grid References SE 64303 29022 and SE 64582 28918, and confirms the surviving hall foundations and associated medieval/manorial earthworks.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor name Barley is a historical spelling/name of the Barlow manor in Brayton, not a different manor in another county.
- The representative coordinate identifies the documented Barlow Hall manor-house site, not the centre of the whole historical manorial estate.
- No defensible historical manor-land polygon was found; the Barlow township boundary and later Barlow estate acreage should not be treated as an exact manor boundary.