ALKRINGTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The supplied TNA/MDR record F244896, authority reference GB/NNAF/M229584, primary name ALKRINGTON MANOR, and Middleton/Lancashire location correspond to the historically documented manor of Alkrington in the former township and parish context of Middleton/Prestwich-cum-Oldham. The 1509–1511 court-roll reference DL 30/78/1014 is consistent with this manor record.
Representative point: 53.5431, -2.2038
Basis: documented_manor_house — Alkrington Hall, the documented manor-house site associated with the Alkrington estate and manor. Historic England gives National Grid Reference SD 86590 05179; the surviving hall occupies the site of an older family house.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor's location and medieval tenurial extent as four oxgangs held by Adam de Prestwich, but does not provide a mapped perimeter or sufficiently explicit boundary description for the manorial land. The Alkrington township/civil-parish boundary and the later Alkrington Hall park or estate boundary cannot safely be substituted for the historical manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register record F244896: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244896 — Registry record for ALKRINGTON MANOR, associated with Middleton, Lancashire, authority/reference GB/NNAF/M229584.
- The National Archives, court roll DL 30/78/1014: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14352555 — 1509–1511 court roll concerning Alkrington and other manors; confirms the existence of relevant manorial records but does not expose a mapped boundary in the available catalogue evidence.
- Historic England, Alkrington Hall, National Heritage List entry 1068499: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1068499 — Identifies Alkrington Hall at NGR SD 86590 05179 and records it as a major historic house in Middleton, formerly Lancashire. The hall is the best documented surviving manor-house location.
- Remains Historical and Antiquarian of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, Chetham Society volume 56: https://www.deanechurch.co.uk/library/BooksDigital/RemainsHistorical/Vol_056.pdf — Records that Adam de Prestwick held four oxgangs of land in Alkrington by 4 shillings yearly, providing medieval evidence for the manor's territorial scale but not a recoverable perimeter.
- Alkrington Hall, Parks & Gardens Register: https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/alkrington-hall — Places Alkrington Hall within the historic Alkrington estate and states that the eighteenth-century hall was built on the site of an older family house; gives approximate coordinates near the documented hall site.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No defensible historical manor polygon was identified from the available evidence.
- The four-oxgang medieval extent is a textual tenurial measure, not a directly mappable boundary.
- Do not substitute the later Alkrington township or civil-parish boundary, modern suburb, or the approximately 42-hectare Alkrington Hall parkland estate for the medieval manor boundary.