ALLINGTON AND VAUXES MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The TNA/MDR record F274956 is identified as the manor of Allington and Vauxes in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire Archives independently catalogues court receipts, an enfranchisement schedule, rentals and court books for the same-named manor in Bottisham, confirming that this is the Bottisham manor rather than another manor named Allington or Vauxes.
Representative point: 52.2196945, 0.2627999
Basis: documented_manor_site — Bottisham Hall is the documented manorial/estate centre associated with the Alington/Allington estate and the later Jenyns ownership of the manor. Historic England identifies the hall at OS National Grid Reference TL 55141 61644; the coordinate supplied is the WGS84 conversion for that site.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established from accessible evidence
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The accessible evidence confirms the manor's location and provides archival leads including rentals, quit-rent records, court books, enfranchisement material and an estate schedule, but it does not expose a documented manor boundary or a sufficiently explicit parcel-by-parcel perimeter. The later Jenyns estate and Bottisham parish boundaries cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Manor record F274956: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F274956 — Registry record for the exact manor, associated with Bottisham, Cambridgeshire.
- Cambridgeshire Archives: Manor of Allington and Vauxes in Bottisham: enfranchisement schedule: https://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/TreeBrowse.aspx?field=RefNo&key=K107%2FF%2Fa%2F81&src=CalmView.Catalog — Independent archival catalogue entry explicitly naming the manor of Allington and Vauxes in Bottisham and identifying an enfranchisement schedule.
- Cambridgeshire Archives: Manors of Anglesey, and Allington and Vauxes in Bottisham: Court receipts: https://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/Record.aspx?id=KAR59%2F14%2F2%2F97&src=CalmView.Catalog — Independent archival record explicitly linking Allington and Vauxes with Bottisham and with manorial court administration.
- Historic England: Bottisham Hall, Bottisham - List Entry 1331430: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1331430 — Identifies Bottisham Hall, Tunbridge Lane, Bottisham, at National Grid Reference TL 55141 61644; describes the present hall as built in 1797 for Rev. G. L. Jenyns.
- A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, Volume 10: Bottisham: Manors and other estates: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18848 — Authoritative county-history reference for the manors and estates of Bottisham, including the Alington/Allington and Jenyns estate history.
- Parks & Gardens: Bottisham Hall: https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/bottisham-hall — Provides WGS84 coordinates 52.2196945, 0.2627999 for Bottisham Hall and records the historic estate/manorial association and surviving moat.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is safe for locating the manor's documented manorial centre, but it should not be interpreted as the full historical territorial extent.
- No defensible historical manor polygon was found in the accessible online evidence.
- The later Jenyns estate, Bottisham Hall parkland, modern Bottisham parish, and civil boundaries are not treated as equivalent to the medieval or early-modern manorial boundary.