BARNBY IN THE WILLOWS MANOR

Identity: likely — The supplied TNA/MDR record identifies the manor specifically as Barnby in the Willows Manor in Barnby in the Willows, Nottinghamshire. Barnby Hall is documented in the parish and is associated with a historic dovecote and manorial landscape, making it the best-supported surviving manor-house location for this record. The MDR detail page was not retrievable for further ownership or boundary particulars.
Representative point: 53.0592, -0.7178
Basis: documented_manor_house — Barnby Hall, Front Street, Barnby in the Willows, is identified as a former Georgian farmhouse and historic hall. A geotagged image places the hall area at approximately OS grid SK 8603 5210; the coordinate given is a rounded WGS84 conversion/approximation for the hall site.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the historic manorial centre but does not provide a manor-specific estate map, rental map, tithe reconstruction, enclosure plan, or other defensible perimeter. The civil-parish boundary has therefore not been substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives Discovery: Barnby in the Willows Manor, F244523: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244523 — Supplied MDR/TNA record identifying the exact registry manor and authority reference GB/NNAF/M223592.
- Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record: Dovecote at Barnby in the Willows, MNT15808: https://her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNT15808 — Records the historic dovecote at OS grid SK 85942 52356 and explicitly identifies it as 250m north-west of Barnby Hall; describes the structure as late medieval or early seventeenth-century and associated with Dovecote Farm.
- Historic England-derived entry: Dovecote 250m north west of Barnby Hall: https://ancientmonuments.uk/115001-dovecote-250m-north-west-of-barnby-hall-barnby-in-the-willows — Confirms the scheduled historic dovecote's location in Barnby in the Willows and its spatial relationship to Barnby Hall, supporting Barnby Hall as the relevant historic manorial centre.
- Barnby Hall, Nottinghamshire: Soul Architects: https://www.soularchitects.co.uk/pf/barnby-hall/ — Describes Barnby Hall as a former Georgian farmhouse in the Barnby in the Willows conservation area and confirms the surviving historic building.
- The River Witham and Barnby Hall, Geograph: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6724287 — Provides geotagged OS-grid and WGS84 reference points immediately around Barnby Hall, supporting the rounded representative coordinate.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The MDR detail page could not be fetched during research, so the manor's medieval and post-medieval ownership history could not be independently verified from the registry description.
- No reliable manor-specific historical perimeter was located. Do not inject a polygon based on the modern civil parish, conservation area, or postcode boundary.
- The representative coordinate is approximate to the hall site rather than a surveyed building centroid.