ALLINGTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry location, authority reference and associated place Chippenham match the Allington manor in the former tithing of Chippenham, Wiltshire. The supplied records include Allington manor court books, stewards' papers, a 1777 manor map, and 1779 estate surveys. The 1779 survey is specifically described as containing a map of the manor of Allington in the parish of Chippenham, distinguishing this record from other English manors named Allington.
Representative point: 51.474708, -2.151689
Basis: documented_manor_site — Allington Manor Farmhouse at NGR ST8956175094 is the surviving manor-house site. Historic England identifies the building as a mid-eighteenth-century farmhouse incorporating fragments from the seventeenth-century manor; the Wiltshire history records that the former Allington manor house was later represented by surviving fabric in the farmhouse and adjoining barn.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Late eighteenth century, especially 1777-1779
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: A 1777 map and a 1779 estate survey of the manor of Allington are documented in the archival leads, and the 1779 survey is confirmed by its catalogue description to contain a manor map showing buildings, roads and fields. However, the accessible evidence does not provide a georeferenced image or a sufficiently legible transcription of the manor perimeter. The historical manor extent therefore cannot be reconstructed defensibly without inventing a boundary or substituting the modern Chippenham Without parish boundary.
Sources:
- Historic England: Allington Manor Farmhouse, List Entry 1022897: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022897 — Identifies Allington Manor Farmhouse in Chippenham Without at NGR ST8956175094 and describes it as a mid-eighteenth-century farmhouse incorporating fragments from the seventeenth-century manor.
- Wiltshire Council Community History: Chippenham Without: https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/55 — Places Allington within the former Chippenham parish and records the history of Allington manor, including the former manor house, Manor Farmhouse and surviving fragments of the earlier building.
- National Archives Discovery: TNA/MDR record F273038: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F273038 — Registry record supplied for Allington Manor, Chippenham, Wiltshire, authority/reference GB/NNAF/M291100.
- National Archives Discovery: DD/WY/121, 1777 map: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16167732 — Archival lead for a 1777 map associated with Allington Manor.
- National Archives Discovery: 1305/220b, 1779 survey book: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16167756 — Archival lead for a 1779 survey book covering Allington and other manors.
- Dominic Winter Auctioneers: 1779 survey of the Wyndham estates: https://www.dominicwinter.co.uk/Auction/Lot/lot-85---wiltshire-survey-of-the-estates-belonging-to-the-honble-charles-william-wyndham-1779/?au=898&ef=&et=&g=1&ic=False&lot=430510&pn=4&pp=24&sd=0&so=0&st=&sto=0 — Catalogue description confirms that the 1779 survey contains a map of the manor of Allington in the parish of Chippenham, with buildings, roads and fields.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the historic manor-house site, not for defining the full manorial territory.
- Do not substitute the modern Chippenham Without civil-parish boundary for the historical manor boundary.
- The manor map and survey are documented, but no accessible source used here supplies a reliable georeferenced perimeter.