ALBURY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The supplied TNA/MDR record, authority reference, and registry location identify the Oxfordshire Albury manor, corresponding to the historic manor of Albury in the ancient parish of Albury, now within Tiddington-with-Albury, South Oxfordshire. This is distinct from the better-known Albury manor in Surrey and from Albury manors in Hertfordshire.
Representative point: 51.7417, -1.0525
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Albury House, immediately beside St Helen's Church and the historic Albury settlement, is identified in local historical material as the site or immediate vicinity of the Albury manor house. Historic England places Albury House at National Grid Reference SP6551705082, converted here to an approximate WGS84 point.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available online evidence establishes the manor's location and historical association with Albury, but does not provide a sufficiently clear, source-backed perimeter for the manorial land. The 1700–1750 Bodleian survey and valuation references are relevant leads, but their mapped contents were not available online in a form permitting reliable polygon reconstruction. The modern civil-parish boundary of Tiddington-with-Albury has not been substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Albury Manor, TNA/MDR record F285600: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F285600 — Registry record supplied for the Oxfordshire manor of Albury.
- Victoria County History: Parishes: Albury (with Tiddington): https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol5/pp8-14 — Authoritative county-history treatment of the historic parish, manor, settlement, and associated lands of Albury and Tiddington.
- Historic England: Albury House and Albury Grange, NHLE 1369293: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1369293 — Locates Albury House at SP6551705082 in Albury, Oxfordshire; the building lies at the historic Albury settlement beside St Helen's Church.
- Thame Local History: Albury: https://www.thamehistory.net/places/Albury.htm — Identifies the historic Albury settlement, states that Albury manor house is near the church, and distinguishes the ancient manor from the modern settlement context.
- Bodleian Library survey and valuation reference MS. Top. Oxon. c. 381: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17051826 — Catalogued 1700–1750 survey and valuation with other manors; relevant lead for possible historical extent evidence.
- Bodleian Library survey and valuation reference MS. Top. Oxon. c. 381: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17051827 — Second catalogued survey and valuation reference for the same Bodleian manuscript, relevant to possible historical extent evidence.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable historical manor boundary polygon could be established from the accessible evidence.
- The representative point is an approximate point for the documented or supported manorial centre at Albury House, not a surveyed legal or historical boundary centroid.
- The modern Tiddington-with-Albury civil-parish boundary, and the wider ancient-parish extent, must not be interpreted as the territorial extent of Albury Manor.