ALBRIGHTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record is securely identified with the medieval and early-modern manor of Albrighton near Shifnal, Shropshire, associated with Norman the Hunter in Domesday Book, the de Pitchford, Tregoz, de la Warre, Troutbeck and Talbot successions, and the borough and market privileges of Albrighton. Sources distinguish it from Monks' Albrighton near Shrewsbury and from the separate Albrighton manor near Shrewsbury.
Representative point: 52.6433, -2.2716
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Humphreston Hall, at approximately NGR SJ8172505087, is a surviving fifteenth-century manor house immediately north of Albrighton. A heritage assessment states that Humphreston Hall may occupy the site of the original manor of Albrighton. This is a stronger manorial-centre candidate than the later eighteenth-century building called The Manor House on High Street, whose direct identity with the medieval manor is not established.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms the manor's location and historical association with Albrighton, but no accessible source located in this research provides a documented polygon or sufficiently explicit parcel-by-parcel perimeter for the historical manorial land. The parish boundary, modern settlement boundary, and later estate holdings cannot safely be substituted for the manor boundary. Historical references associate Albrighton with adjoining Ryton in some medieval tenure records, while Humphreston and Donington formed separate or sub-feudal holdings; this makes an administrative-boundary approximation especially unsafe.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Albrighton Manor, F245415: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F245415 — Registry authority/reference GB/NNAF/M220406 and the exact manor record identified by TNA/MDR reference F245415.
- Victoria County History / Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, Albrighton: https://www.melocki.org.uk/eyton/Eyton_Vol02.pdf — Records Ralph de Picheford's tenure of Albrighton directly of the Crown, the association of Albrighton with Ryton in the 1240 tenure roll, and the later medieval descent of the manor.
- Historic England: Humphreston Hall, NHLE 1238871: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1238871 — Identifies Humphreston Hall at NGR SJ8172505087 as a fifteenth-century manor house, with earlier fabric and a former moat.
- Chestnut House, Albrighton: Heritage Impact Assessment: https://docs.planning.org.uk/20240412/32/SBBUI7TDGWH00/iwmsu7puf6zb3ufq.pdf — States that Humphreston Hall may be the site of the original manor of Albrighton and describes the medieval settlement as dispersed, with multiple operational loci.
- Albrighton and Donington Parish Council: History of Albrighton: https://albrightondonington-pc.gov.uk/community/history-of-our-parishes/albrighton — Summarises the Domesday identification, the de Pitchford succession, the manor's borough and market privileges, and its later association with the Talbots.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is a historically supported manorial-centre candidate, not a conclusively proven location of the original medieval lord's residence.
- The listed eighteenth-century building named The Manor House on High Street is within Albrighton, but available evidence does not establish that it was the principal medieval manor house.
- No historically defensible manor-land polygon was found; do not inject the modern civil-parish, settlement, borough, conservation-area, or estate boundary as the manor extent.
- Humphreston Hall is north of the present village and lies in the modern Albrighton and Donington parish; this modern administrative description must not be interpreted as the medieval manor boundary.