AISKEW MANOR

Claim

Historical names: Ascough (Manor)

Location: Bedale, Yorkshire

Places / associated places: Bedale, Yorkshire

Listed in Domesday Book: Yes

Location & Extent

GPS Location & Recorded Land Areas

Representative GPS point: 54.291852, -1.583017

Location / boundary notes:

Identity: confirmed — The registry record's Aiskew/Ascough identification is corroborated by the c.1772 estate-plan catalogue titled "A plan of the manors of Bedale and Ascough" and by the nineteenth-century description of the Manor House at Aiskew. The evidence places this manor within the Bedale lordship and estate complex, not as an unrelated same-named manor.
Representative point: 54.291852, -1.583017
Basis: documented_manor_house — The Manor House at Aiskew is identified in the 1890 description as the former Stapleton property sold by Lord Beaumont in 1871. The surviving building is identified at 30 Bedale Road, Aiskew; the mapped object location for that building is approximately 54.291852, -1.583017.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: c.1772 estate-plan context
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: A North Yorkshire estate map, ZBA 26/1/3, is catalogued as a plan of the manors of Bedale and Ascough, with coloured ownership boundaries and apparently near-complete tenement boundaries. However, the publicly accessible reproduction is only an index/coverage image and does not provide a sufficiently legible, georeferenced perimeter for the Aiskew/Ascough manorial extent. The 1838 tithe material and later estate references confirm landholding context but do not independently establish a complete manor boundary. A polygon would therefore risk substituting the township, parish or modern settlement boundary for the historical manor.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Aiskew Manor, TNA/MDR F242249: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F242249 — Registry identity, authority reference and historical association with Aiskew/Ascough and Bedale.
- Catalogue of British Town Maps: Yorks-Bedale-1772: https://townmaps.history.ac.uk/townmap/yorks-bedale-1772/ — Catalogues North Yorkshire Record Office ZBA 26/1/3 as an estate plan of the manors of Bedale and Ascough, showing ownership and tenement boundaries.
- North Yorkshire Tithes Project: Bedale: https://northyorkstithes.com/project/bedale/ — Provides the 1838 tithe-map context, including a distinct Aiskew section and the division of the Bedale-area landscape into historical townships.
- Bulmers' 1890 Directory: Bedale Parish: https://www.blunham.com/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Bedale/Bedale90.html — States that Aiskew was a township adjoining Bedale and identifies the Manor House at Aiskew as the former Stapleton property sold by Lord Beaumont to Sir Henry Beresford-Peirse in 1871.
- The Manor House, 30 Bedale Road, Aiskew: Wikimedia Commons / Geograph record: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Manor_House_(Bed_%5E_Breakfast),_%5E30_Bedale_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3238861.jpg — Identifies the surviving building as The Manor House at 30 Bedale Road, Aiskew and supplies an object location of approximately 54.291852, -1.583017.
- Bedale Park historical research, Yorkshire Gardens Trust: https://www.yorkshiregardenstrust.org.uk/research/sites/bedale-park — Confirms the relevant Bedale and Aiskew estate-map references, including ZBA 26/1/3, and documents the difficulty of reconstructing historical estate and manor boundaries from surviving evidence.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor's historical territorial extent was associated with the Bedale estate and could include divided moieties and dispersed tenements; it should not be equated automatically with the modern Aiskew civil parish or township.
- The publicly available evidence confirms the existence of a detailed c.1772 Bedale-and-Ascough estate plan but does not expose a sufficiently legible boundary for safe polygon reconstruction.
- The representative point is suitable for locating the documented Manor House, but it should not be interpreted as the centroid or full territorial centre of the medieval or later manor.

About the Manor

Aiskew Manor was the manor associated with Aiskew, historically written Ascough, Askue, Ayscough and similar forms, in the parish and later civil locality of Bedale in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Aiskew is recorded as Echescol in Domesday Book and as Ascough by the thirteenth century. The manor followed the descent of the neighbouring and closely connected manor of Bedale. Medieval evidence shows that the Bedale estate was divided into moieties after the death of Brian FitzAlan in 1306; sources separately mention two parts of the manor of Ayscugh and later describe the manors of Bedale and Ascough together. The Aiskew estate therefore should not be treated as an unrelated manor bearing a similar name, but as the Aiskew/Ascough component of the Bedale lordship and estate complex. By the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the estate had passed through the Lovel, Crown, Digby, Jackson, Theakston and Peirse interests. The surviving nineteenth-century description refers to the Manor House at Aiskew as long the property of the Stapletons until its sale by Lord Beaumont in 1871 to Sir Henry Beresford-Peirse. No separate hereditary title styled Lord of Aiskew has been securely established in the sources consulted.

Ownership / Holder Account

The earliest securely relevant evidence is Domesday evidence for Bedale and Aiskew within the estates of Count Alan of Brittany, although the surviving summary does not distinguish the later legal manor from the wider Domesday holding. In the early fourteenth century Aiskew formed part of the inheritance associated with the FitzHugh family and was brought into the Bedale family through the marriage of Avice Marmion to John Grey. The Bedale estate was partitioned into moieties in 1317. By 1388 Sir Robert Grey was seised of two parts of the manor of Ayscugh and of a moiety of the manor of Bedale. That Grey interest descended through Joan Grey, the Deyncourt co-heirs, and the Lovel family. Francis, Lord Lovel, held the relevant Bedale interest until his attainder in 1487, after which the Crown took the forfeited estate. The Crown first placed the Bedale moiety in the receivership of Simon Digby in 1487 and granted it to Sir John Digby in 1498, with a further confirmation in 1514 expressly including possessions in Bedale and Aiscough. The Digby interest continued through John Digby and then Simon Digby, whose participation in the Rising of the North caused forfeiture in 1571. Elizabeth I granted the forfeited Bedale and Ascough estate to Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, who subsequently conveyed it to John Jackson. George Jackson later conveyed the Jackson moiety of Bedale to Richard Theakston in 1594. Theakston ownership and the identity of the estate as including Ascough are supported by a 1638 recovery concerning the manors of Bedall and Ascough and by seventeenth-century descriptions of the two Bedale manors. The Theakston estate was sequestrated during the Commonwealth period, temporarily sold by the Treason Trustees to John Keeble in 1653, and released to the minor Richard Theakston in 1654. John Peirse purchased the Theakston half of the manor of Bedale about 1657; a 1638 recovery already linked Richard Peirse with the manors of Bedall and Ascough. The Peirse family thereafter held the Peirse moiety through Richard Peirse, Henry Peirse of Bedale, and Henry Peirse the younger. The other moiety remained associated with the Stapleton line and was ultimately held by Lord Beaumont. In 1871 Lord Beaumont sold the Aiskew Manor House and the associated Stapleton interest to Sir Henry Beresford-Peirse. The Peirse and Beresford-Peirse interests were subsequently combined or represented in the Bedale and Aiskew estate, but the precise legal stages by which every separate Aiskew parcel and moiety was consolidated are not fully established by the public sources consulted.

Records & References

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

21 records found · showing 17–21.