BARMOOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry location at Lowick, Northumberland matches the Northumberland Archives Manor History File for BARMOOR and the archive's digitised court-roll series NRO 02372/A/1/1/1-4, explicitly described as records of the Manor of Barmoor. The historical manor was associated with the Muschamp barony and had an important manorial residence at Barmoor.
Representative point: 55.65245, -2.00602
Basis: documented_manor_house — Barmoor Castle occupies the historic manorial-residence site. Historic England identifies the site in Lowick at National Grid Reference NT9972039886; the supplied WGS84 point is the corresponding castle/manor-house location.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Historical manor; documented estate evidence chiefly from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms that Barmoor was a manor and township centred on Barmoor Castle, and that surviving estate plans and surveys existed for the Barmoor estate, including the 1780 estate plan, the 1786 Survey and Valuation by John Bailey and George Culley, and an 1804 plan of the Barmoor Castle Estate. The available web evidence does not provide a sufficiently legible, georeferenced perimeter from those plans to reconstruct a defensible manorial polygon. The manor must not be substituted with the modern Lowick parish or township boundary.
Sources:
- Northumberland Archives, Manor History File: BARMOOR: https://northumberlandarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Manor-History-File-BARMOOR.pdf — Identifies BARMOOR as a manor of the Muschamp barony, records its important manorial residence, ownership history, and the Northumberland Archives court-roll series NRO 02372/A for 1654-1726.
- Historic England, Barmoor Castle, list entry 1156023: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1156023 — Identifies Barmoor Castle in Lowick at National Grid Reference NT9972039886 and describes the present house as incorporating earlier masonry.
- Northumberland Archives, Images and Transcripts: Barmoor: https://northumberlandarchives.com/manorial-project/images-and-transcripts/images-and-transcripts-barmoor/ — Provides the digitised 1654 court-roll material explicitly titled Court roll, Manor of Barmoor, Northumberland, and links it to the same archival series supplied in the registry leads.
- Northumberland Archives, Final Findings—Phipps Collection: https://northumberlandarchives.com/2025/06/12/manorial-documents-register-project/ — Confirms Barmoor as a substantial estate and notes surviving estate records and sales particulars, including evidence concerning the transfer of the Barmoor Estate.
- Barmoor Castle Heritage Statement: https://docs.planning.org.uk/20230131/97/RNUMBWQSM7Y00/mgx62ovpqni3j2nl.pdf — Discusses the historic manor house and cites the 1778 plan of Barmoor and its grounds, the 1780 Plan of Barmoor Estate, the 1786 Survey and Valuation of Barmoor Estate, and the 1804 Barmoor Castle Estate plan.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No safe historical manorial boundary polygon was returned. The modern Lowick parish, township, or settlement boundary would not be a valid substitute.
- The representative point identifies the documented manor-house/manorial-centre site at Barmoor Castle, not the full extent of the medieval or later manor.
- The surviving estate plans may support a future boundary reconstruction if the original plans or high-resolution archive images are obtained and georeferenced.