Historical names: Nutley Grove; Nutting Grove
Location: Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire
Places / associated places: Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire
Location & Extent
GPS Location & Recorded Land Areas
Representative GPS point: 51.5641, -0.5497
Identity: confirmed — The registry record for Alderbourne Manor in Langley Marish matches the documented Alderbourne Manor estate, whose historic site lay chiefly in Langley Marish and extended into the neighbouring parishes of Denham and Iver. Historical evidence identifies the property as formerly Nutting Grove/Nutley Grove and records its descent from Ankerwycke Priory to later private owners.
Representative point: 51.5641, -0.5497
Basis: documented_manor_site — Approximate point for Alderbourne Manor, Fulmer Lane, derived from the documented Alderbourne Manor address and postcode location. The house survives as a divided residential building; the postcode point is approximate rather than a surveyed building centroid.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Historic estate/manor site documented principally from the early nineteenth century through the twentieth century
Boundary confidence: medium
Boundary basis: The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust dossier identifies a historic Alderbourne Manor site of approximately 16 hectares, chiefly in Langley Marish but extending into Denham and Iver. It describes the site as bounded by Fulmer Lane to the north-west, Hawks Wood Lane to the west, the M25 corridor to the east, and Hawks Wood/agricultural land to the south. These sources establish the location and approximate extent of the historic estate site but do not provide a sufficiently recoverable, manor-specific surveyed perimeter. The described 16-hectare estate should not be conflated with the full legal extent of the medieval or post-medieval manor.
Sources:
- TNA Discovery: Alderbourne Manor, record F242357: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F242357 — Registry record supplied for the manor; the TNA detail page is the authority/reference lead for the exact manor identity.
- Bucks Gardens Trust, Site Dossier: Alderbourne Manor, Fulmer: https://www.bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Alderbourne-update-3-2018.pdf — Identifies the manor historically, states that it lay chiefly in Langley Marish and extended into Denham and Iver, gives an approximately 16-hectare site, and describes the historic site boundaries. It also records the earlier names Nutting Grove and Nutley Grove.
- Buckinghamshire's Local Heritage List: Alderbourne Manor: https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/buckinghamshire/asset/3119 — Confirms the surviving nineteenth-century manor house, parkland, woodland garden, lake, drive and associated lodge, and describes the historic landscape as a manor ensemble.
- Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal: Alderbourne Cottage: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MBC18084 — Confirms Alderbourne Cottage as the early nineteenth-century entrance lodge to Alderbourne Manor and locates the associated manor landscape in Fulmer parish.
- SL3 6JA postcode location: Alderbourne Manor, Fulmer Lane: https://checkmypostcode.uk/sl36ja — Provides the approximate geographic point 51.5641, -0.5497 for the Alderbourne Manor address; used only as an approximate manor-site representative point.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The exact manor identity is secure, but the surviving evidence located online describes the historic house and estate site rather than a complete medieval or post-medieval manorial boundary.
- The returned point is an approximate postcode-based manor-site point, not a surveyed coordinate for the historic manor house.
- No polygon is returned because the available evidence does not supply a sufficiently reliable, manor-specific perimeter; modern parish, planning and Article 4 boundaries were not substituted.
About the Manor
Alderbourne Manor was a historic manor and estate chiefly situated in the former parish of Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, with parts extending into Denham and Iver. The medieval and early post-medieval manor was distinct from the later nineteenth-century country house that came to bear the same name. The estate site was formerly known as Nutley Grove or Nutting Grove; it was shown as Alderbourne Manor on an estate map of 1845 and was described in 1862 as Alderbourne Manor, formerly called Nutley Grove, then the seat of the Revd Henry Hugh Way. The present mid-nineteenth-century villa, service buildings, lodge, gardens, woodland and parkland were developed between approximately 1845 and 1875. The surviving historic landscape includes the manor house site, associated service buildings, woodland, parkland and a boating lake, although the wider estate was later fragmented and affected by construction of the M25 and M40. The manor belonged to Ankerwycke Priory until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-sixteenth century. It subsequently became associated with the Windsor family in the seventeenth century, then with the Dukes of Somerset and the Way family of nearby Denham Place. The precise dates and legal instruments for the transfers between those owners have not been established from the publicly accessible sources consulted.
Ownership / Holder Account
The securely reported descent is: Ankerwycke Priory held the manor until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-sixteenth century; the manor was subsequently in the possession of the Windsor family during the seventeenth century; it later passed to the Dukes of Somerset; it subsequently passed to the Way family of Denham Place. The estate was associated with the Revd Henry Hugh Way by about 1852 and he is stated to have owned it from 1861 until his death in 1890. A Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies reference records an agreement for exchange between Benjamin Way and the Revd Henry Hugh Way involving land in Denham and Iver, but the publicly available summary does not establish that this document alone transferred the whole manor. Later directories and newspapers show occupants or residents of Alderbourne Manor, including Viscount Coke in 1895, John Bell White from about 1907 to at least 1919, Captain Tahu Rhodes and the Hon Helen Plunket from about 1927, Murray Adams-Acton between 1931 and 1935, Major Arthur W. M. Burton, and subsequently the de Courcy family. These occupancy references are not treated as proof of manorial ownership. The estate was split during the 1950s. From 1958 to 1974 Gustav Kahnweiler and his wife Elizabeth owned one apartment within the manor house, while Basil Palmas is reported as owner of the manor house for much of that period; these statements concern parts of the fragmented house and estate and are not treated as evidence that either party held the historic manor as a whole. The later site remained in split private ownership.
Conveyance & Descent
First holder to present holder: blood proximity & distance travelled
First recorded holder: Ankerwycke Priory
Present holder:
Recorded title journey: 5 holder entries in this manor's saved Conveyance & Descent history.
No recorded holder currently has a usable saved direct-blood or collateral-blood relationship path from which to calculate proximity percentages.
First recorded holder → present holder
A usable saved blood relationship path between the first recorded holder and the present holder has not yet been recorded, so that first-to-present genealogical distance cannot be calculated.
Ankerwycke Priory
Transfer: Earlier holding; ended at the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The precise acquisition date and the subsequent legal transfer are not established in the consulted public sources.
Shared holding: Religious house
The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust dossier states that the manor of Alderbourne belonged to Ankerwycke Priory until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-sixteenth century. This is direct evidence of the priory's manorial connection, but the available summary does not identify the original grant or the exact date on which the priory acquired the manor.
Source: Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust, Understanding Historic Parks and Gardens in Buckinghamshire: Alderbourne Manor, amended March 2018, p. 5; citing Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies material and Victoria County History, Buckinghamshire, vol. 3. — source link
Windsor family
Transfer: The manor subsequently became the property of the Windsor family after the Dissolution period. The precise date, individual Windsor holder and legal instrument are not identified in the consulted public sources.
Shared holding: Family ownership
Co-holder: Way family of Denham Place
Previous holder: Ankerwycke Priory
The source describes Alderbourne as becoming the property of the Windsor family in the seventeenth century. Because no named Windsor individual or specific conveyance has been located, the holder is retained at family-group level and the transfer is recorded with an explicit documentary gap.
Source: Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust, Understanding Historic Parks and Gardens in Buckinghamshire: Alderbourne Manor, amended March 2018, p. 5; citing Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies reference AR/69/64 and Victoria County History, Buckinghamshire, vol. 3. — source link
Dukes of Somerset, Duke of Somerset
Transfer: The manor subsequently passed from the Windsor family to the Dukes of Somerset. The date, particular duke and legal instrument are not identified in the consulted public sources.
Shared holding: Noble title holder
Previous holder: Windsor family
The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust dossier states that Alderbourne Manor subsequently passed into the ownership of the Dukes of Somerset. This establishes the manor connection but does not provide sufficient evidence to name the individual duke or date the conveyance.
Source: Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust, Understanding Historic Parks and Gardens in Buckinghamshire: Alderbourne Manor, amended March 2018, p. 5; citing Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies reference AR/69/64 and Victoria County History, Buckinghamshire, vol. 3. — source link
Way family of Denham Place
Transfer: The manor subsequently passed from the Dukes of Somerset to the Way family of nearby Denham Place. The precise conveyance date and instrument are not identified. A separate Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies reference records an agreement for exchange between Benjamin Way and the Revd Henry Hugh Way involving land in Denham and Iver.
Shared holding: Family ownership
Co-holder: Windsor family
Previous holder: Dukes of Somerset, Duke of Somerset
The source states that Alderbourne Manor later passed to the Way family of Denham Place. The estate may have been in the possession of the Revd Henry Hugh Way from about 1852, but the available archival summary only identifies an agreement for exchange of land in Denham and Iver between Benjamin Way and the Revd Henry Hugh Way; it does not prove that this agreement transferred the whole manor. The family-level holding is therefore recorded without an invented exact date.
Source: Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust, Understanding Historic Parks and Gardens in Buckinghamshire: Alderbourne Manor, amended March 2018, pp. 5 and 10; citing Victoria County History, Buckinghamshire, vol. 3, and Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies reference D/W/33-16. — source link
Revd Henry Hugh Way, J.P., formerly vicar of Henbury, Gloucestershire
Transfer: Established ownership during his lifetime; the source does not specify whether the holding arose by inheritance, purchase, exchange or another legal conveyance.
Previous holder: Way family of Denham Place
The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust dossier states that the Revd Henry Hugh Way certainly owned Alderbourne Manor from 1861 until his death in 1890. It also reports that the estate may have been in his possession from about 1852 and that a surviving agreement for exchange between Benjamin Way and Henry Hugh Way concerns land in Denham and Iver. The exact legal route by which he acquired the manor remains unresolved.
Source: Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust, Understanding Historic Parks and Gardens in Buckinghamshire: Alderbourne Manor, amended March 2018, p. 5; citing Sheahan, History and Topography of Buckinghamshire, 1862, p. 864, Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies reference D/W/33-16, and Victoria County History, Buckinghamshire, vol. 3. — source link
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