ALFORD HANBY MANOR

Identity: likely — The alternative form Alford Hamby matches the medieval Hanby/Hamby manor associated with the lost settlement of Hanby in Welton le Marsh, rather than the separate modern Georgian Hanby Hall at 15 Church Street, Alford. The supplied court-roll references are from the Alford-area archive collection and include records for Hanby cum Welton. Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer identifies a medieval manor house, moat, fishponds, motte and deserted settlement at Hanby Hall Farm.
Representative point: 53.2055, 0.2092
Basis: documented_manor_site — Representative point derived from the documented medieval moated manor-house site and Hanby Hall Farm archaeological complex, centred around OS grid reference TF 4748 6984 / the more precise archaeological location TF 47680 69810.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval and later manorial period; exact applicable survey date not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence locates the manor and documents associated moat, fishponds, motte, ridge-and-furrow and settlement boundaries, but does not provide a defensible perimeter for the historical manorial land. The court-roll catalogue entries are not accompanied by a mapped territorial extent. No modern parish, civil-parish or estate boundary has been substituted.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Alford Hanby Manor, TNA/MDR record F291927: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F291927 — Registry record for the supplied manor identity and authority GB/NNAF/M317313.
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: MLI42175, Moated site, Welton le Marsh: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI42175 — Identifies an 18th-century Hanby Hall close to a medieval moat containing foundations of earlier buildings, with associated fishponds; records the site as a medieval manor house.
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: MLI42176, Deserted medieval village of Hanby: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI42176 — Places the lost settlement of Hanby at Hanby Hall Farm, records the medieval settlement, boundaries, ridge-and-furrow and cropmark complex, and gives centred grid reference TF 4748 6984 and archaeological location TF 47680 69810.
- National Grid, Cultural Heritage Gazetteer: https://www.nationalgrid.com/document/559351/download — Describes Castle Hill, 250 metres east of Hanby Hall Farm, as a medieval motte associated with the medieval manor of Hanby; gives grid reference 547673, 369809.
- Lincolnshire Archives court-roll research lead: 1-ANC/3/1A/1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17763360 — Supplied archive reference for the 1429–1434 court roll associated with the Alford Hanby research record.
- Lincolnshire Archives court-roll research lead: 2-ANC/2/1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17764418 — Supplied archive reference for the 1509–1589 court roll associated with the Alford Hanby research record.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The current Hanby Hall at 15 Church Street, Alford is an early-18th-century listed house and should not automatically be treated as the medieval manor site. The stronger historical-manorial evidence points to Hanby Hall Farm and the lost settlement of Hanby in Welton le Marsh, approximately four miles south of Alford.
- A historical manorial boundary has not been established from the accessible evidence; do not inject a polygon based on the modern parish, settlement, archaeological site extent or present-day Mawthorpe Estate.