ADDINGTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal records Addington Manor as the medieval and post-medieval manor in Addington, Buckinghamshire, with Domesday and later manorial ownership history. Its related records identify the former manor house, Addington House/Addington Place, at the same historic site. This matches the registry name, location, TNA/MDR record and authority reference; it is distinct from Addington manors in other counties.
Representative point: 51.95073, -0.92111
Basis: documented_manor_house — Former manor house, now Addington House/Addington Place, National Grid Reference SP 74245 28576. Historic England describes it as the former Addington House, while the Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal relates the building directly to the Addington Manor monument.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to post-medieval; documented manor record spanning approximately 1066–1798
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor's historic site and manorial succession but do not provide a sufficiently explicit perimeter for the historical manorial land. The documented 19th-century landscaped park of approximately 115 hectares is not demonstrated to be the medieval or post-medieval manor extent, and the civil parish boundary or modern estate boundary cannot be substituted for the manorial boundary.
Sources:
- Buckinghamshire's Heritage Portal: 0281401000 - Addington Manor: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MBC7623 — Records the medieval and post-medieval Addington Manor, its Domesday six-hide extent and successive manorial owners; gives a manor-related point at SP 74400 28500 and links the manor to Addington Old Manor House and Addington Manor House.
- Historic England: Addington Grange, Addington House, Addington Place and Park House, NHLE 1214529: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1214529 — Identifies the former Addington House/Addington Place as a late-17th-century house at National Grid Reference SP 74245 28576, the documented surviving former manor-house site.
- Buckinghamshire's Heritage Portal: Addington Old Manor House: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MBC7625 — Describes the Old Manor House north of the church, records its historic fabric and identifies it as part of the Addington Manor complex.
- Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust: Addington Manor site dossier: https://bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Addington_Manor.pdf — Distinguishes the older manor house near the church from the later 19th-century manor built on a new site, and discusses the later landscaped park without establishing it as the medieval manorial boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable source located supplies a complete historical polygon for the manorial land.
- The 19th-century Addington Manor park, approximately 115 hectares, should not be treated as the full historical manor extent.
- The representative coordinate is tied to the documented former manor house rather than a reconstructed territorial centre.