ALLERTON MAULEVERER MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name, location, TNA/MDR record F243392, authority reference GB/NNAF/M170281, and the associated York Minster rentals and court rolls consistently identify the medieval and early-modern manor centred on Allerton Mauleverer. The documented Allerton Park/Allerton Castle estate is the surviving manorial centre of the Mauleverer family estate.
Representative point: 54.0172, -1.3698
Basis: documented_manor_house — Allerton Castle, formerly Allerton Park and incorporating or replacing the historic Mauleverer manor house, is the documented principal house and manorial centre. Historic England identifies the present mansion and its earlier house on the same site; the 1734 estate map shows the earlier mansion there.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor house and associated estate, but does not provide an accessible, reliable perimeter for the historical manorial land. The 1734 Allerton Park map is an estate map centred on the house and park, not demonstrably a complete boundary map of the manor. The parish or modern civil-parish boundary cannot safely be substituted for the manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Allerton Mauleverer Manor, TNA/MDR record F243392: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F243392 — Registry record identifying the exact manor as Allerton Mauleverer Manor in Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton, Yorkshire.
- Historic England: Allerton Park, listed building entry 1189430: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1189430 — Identifies Allerton Park/Allerton Castle as the principal mansion at Allerton Mauleverer, gives its National Grid Reference SE4134358080, and records that the present house possibly incorporates the earlier 1721 house.
- Historic England: Allerton Park, registered park and garden entry 1000402: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000402 — Documents the Allerton estate, its historic development under the Mauleverer and Arundel families, the 1720s enlargement of the park, and the c.1734 estate map surveyed for Richard Arundel.
- The National Archives: Allerton Park map, 1734, Allerton Park maps 1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14277426 — Archive catalogue lead for the 1734 map used to identify the historic estate and mansion; catalogue evidence does not establish a complete manorial boundary.
- Allerton Castle: History of Allerton Castle: https://www.allertoncastle.co.uk/our-history/ — Describes the long Mauleverer ownership, the historic mansion shown on the 1734 map, and the later rebuilding of the house on the same manorial site.
- The National Archives: York Minster rental, 1300-1350: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14260344 — One of the associated medieval rental records supporting the identification of the registry manor and its medieval territorial administration.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor centre, not for implying the full extent of the medieval or early-modern manor.
- Allerton Park, the later designed landscape, and the modern civil parish are not automatically equivalent to the historical manorial territory.
- No defensible historical polygon was found; a boundary should not be injected without consulting the original 1734 map, rentals, surveys, or other mapped manorial records held by the relevant archives.