AIRMYN MANOR

Claim

Historical names: Manor of Armin; Manor of Armyn

Location: Snaith, Yorkshire

Places / associated places: Snaith, Yorkshire

Location & Extent

GPS Location & Recorded Land Areas

Representative GPS point: 53.7204, -0.9026

Location / boundary notes:

Identity: confirmed — The record is securely identified with the manor historically styled Armin or Armyn, centred on Airmyn in the former township and chapelry of Snaith, Yorkshire. The documented descent from St Mary's Abbey, York, through the Crown, Sir Gervase Clifton, the Smithson family and the Percy/Heber-Percy estates matches the supplied registry description and the Airmyn estate archival references.
Representative point: 53.7204, -0.9026
Basis: documented_estate_centre — Airmyn Hall, 29, 31 and 31A High Street, is the surviving principal country house of the later Airmyn estate. Historic England identifies the building at National Grid Reference SE 72514 25451, corresponding approximately to 53.7204, -0.9026.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: No single securely documented historical manor boundary established from the accessible sources; the later Airmyn estate is documented mainly through its 1919 sale particulars.
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The accessible evidence establishes the manor's location at Airmyn and documents a substantial later estate extending across numerous farms and properties in Airmyn, Boothferry, Old Goole and Newland, with three sale plans held by the East Riding of Yorkshire Archives. However, those sources do not provide an accessible, unambiguous polygon for the historical manorial land, and the later estate should not automatically be equated with the medieval or early-modern manor. The approximately 4,000-acre figure associated with the nineteenth-century estate is insufficient by itself to reconstruct a legally or historically reliable perimeter.
Sources:
- Airmyn Hall, Airmyn - National Heritage List for England entry 1274967: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1274967 — Authoritative identification of Airmyn Hall at High Street, Airmyn, with National Grid Reference SE 72514 25451; describes the surviving early-eighteenth-century country house associated with the estate.
- Airmyn Estate sales particulars: https://calmview.eastriding.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx/Overview.aspx?q=PlaceCode%3ANA6291&src=CalmView.Catalog — East Riding Archives catalogue record for the 1919 Airmyn Estate sale. It lists Airmyn Hall and grounds and numerous farms and properties in Airmyn, Boothferry, Old Goole and Newland, and states that three plans show the estate and sale lots.
- History of Airmyn: https://www.airmynparishcouncil.org.uk/index.php/about/history — Local institutional history identifies Airmyn Hall as the surviving hall associated with the Smithson purchase of the Manor of Airmyn and records the later Heber-Percy ownership and division of the estate into farms and smaller properties around 1920.
- Airmyn's church - past and present - St David: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/17572/page/32093/view/ — States that Anthony Smithson was Lord of the Manor of Airmyn in 1676 and refers to the later 4,000-acre Airmyn Estate managed for the Percy and Heber-Percy owners.
- Airmyn, West Riding: historical description and map context: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11102 — Provides historical geographical context, placing Airmyn as a chapelry in Snaith parish at the confluence of the Aire and Ouse, and records a nineteenth-century area of 3,660 acres for the chapelry.
- TNA/MDR record F244639: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244639 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identity, authority/reference GB/NNAF/M170292, primary name Airmyn Manor and location Snaith, Yorkshire.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is the surviving Airmyn Hall, a documented later estate centre, not proof that the present building occupies the precise medieval manor-house site.
- No historical manor boundary polygon is returned because the accessible evidence does not distinguish a defensible manorial perimeter from the later Percy/Heber-Percy estate, parish, township or sale-lot boundaries.
- The 1919 sale-plan catalogue entry is evidence that detailed plans exist, but the accessible catalogue text does not expose their geometry; obtaining and examining the original plans would be necessary for a supported boundary reconstruction.

About the Manor

Airmyn Manor, historically also styled the Manor of Armin or Armyn, was the principal manorial estate associated with Airmyn, a settlement at the confluence of the River Aire and the River Ouse in the former township and chapelry of Snaith, Yorkshire. Airmyn formed part of an endowment made by Henry I to the monks of St Mary's Abbey, York, and a settlement was developed there during the medieval period. Following the Dissolution, the manor was sold by the Crown in 1540 to Sir Gervase Clifton. It was acquired by Hugh Smithson in 1656 and subsequently became associated with the Smithson, Percy and Heber-Percy estates. Airmyn Hall was the principal country house of the later estate and remains a surviving built feature, although the former estate was divided and sold in lots in the early twentieth century.

Ownership / Holder Account

The earliest securely identified lordship is the holding of Airmyn by St Mary's Abbey, York, after Henry I granted the area to that religious house during his reign, conventionally dated 1100–1135. A 1253 dispute records the men of Airmyn treating the abbot of St Mary's as their landlord. The abbey was dissolved in 1539 and its estates passed to the Crown. In 1540 the Crown sold the Manor of Armin to Sir Gervase Clifton. The subsequent descent is incompletely documented in the publicly accessible sources. Hugh Smithson of Hull is recorded as having bought Airmyn in 1656. Anthony Smithson was Lord of the Manor by 1676, but the precise conveyance from Hugh to Anthony is not established. By about 1740 the estate was held by another Hugh Smithson, described as of Tottenham and Armin; he made his younger cousin, Sir Hugh Smithson, 4th Baronet, his heir, and the younger Sir Hugh and his wife Elizabeth subsequently acquired the Airmyn estate. Following the Smithson inheritance of the Percy property, Airmyn became part of the Percy Yorkshire estates. The estate was separated for Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, in or around 1790, and passed to his son George Percy, 2nd Earl of Beverley, in 1830. In 1865, after George Percy succeeded to the dukedom of Northumberland, the Airmyn estate passed to his nephew Algernon Charles Heber-Percy of Hodnet Hall. The Heber-Percy ownership continued until the estate was offered for sale and broken up in 1919–1920. The sources do not establish a complete legal descent after the estate sale or whether a distinct manorial title continued in the hands of any one purchaser.

Records & References

Sources and references mentioning this manor/title which are not necessarily conveyances or transfers.

14 records found · showing 9–14.