ALTHREY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name Althrey Manor matches the documented Althrey Hall manor house in the Althrey locality of Bangor Is-y-coed, historically Flintshire. The site is a documented early sixteenth-century high-status hall/manor house, also associated with an earlier possible manorial or moated site. Historical spellings of the locality include Alrei, Alrey, Alrhey, Alchrey and Althrey.
Representative point: 52.990554, -2.9264823
Basis: documented_manor_house — Althrey Hall, OS grid reference SJ3790044092 / SJ379440, the surviving historic manor house and manorial centre.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; documentary evidence also survives for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor house and a local agricultural landscape associated with Althrey, including Althrey Meadow or the Althrey common meadow near the Dee and Bangor racecourse, but does not provide a sufficiently legible or explicit perimeter for the historical manorial land. The 1745-1750 rentals reference is a useful lead, but the accessible catalogue evidence does not expose a mapped extent. The manor must not be substituted with the parish of Bangor Is-y-coed or the modern Althrey estate.
Sources:
- Coflein: Althrey Hall, NPRN 35634: https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/35634/ — Identifies Althrey Hall in historic Flintshire, grid reference SJ3790044092, as a fine early sixteenth-century timber-framed mansion and describes excavation evidence for an earlier hall on the site.
- Place-names of Flintshire: Althrey: https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781786831118_A35683440/preview-9781786831118_A35683440.pdf — Records the historical forms Alrei, Alrey, Alray, Alrrey, Alchre, Alchrey, Alrhey and Althrey; places Althrey Hall at SJ3743 near Bangor racecourse and notes that it is now a farmhouse.
- Heneb / Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust: Maelor Saesneg historic landscape: https://heneb.org.uk/archive/cpat/projects/longer/histland/maelor/1117.htm — Describes Althrey Hall as a late medieval or early post-medieval high-status hall, possibly replacing an earlier moated hall, and identifies documentary references to Althrey strip fields and the Althrey dole field or common meadow.
- Flintshire Record Office place database: Bangor: https://www.flintshire.gov.uk/en/LeisureAndTourism/Records-and-Archives/Databases/Places.aspx?cat=BANGOR — Lists historical records for particulars of manor cottages and Althrey Hall farm, and a survey and valuation of the Althrey estate in 1858.
- The National Archives: F238292, Althrey Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F238292 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identification; the record is titled Althrey Manor and carries authority/reference GB/NNAF/M171734.
- The National Archives: C 114/144, rentals, 1745-1750: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14336817 — Existing registry research lead for rentals with Chancery masters' exhibits relating to the manor; potentially important for reconstructing constituent lands, but no accessible mapped boundary was established.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor's historical territorial extent remains unestablished from the accessible evidence.
- Althrey Meadow or the common meadow near Bangor racecourse is evidence of associated historical land use, not proof of the complete manor boundary.
- Do not use the modern parish, community, postcode, racecourse, or present-day Althrey estate as a substitute boundary.
- The representative point is suitable for location injection; no historical polygon should be injected without consulting the rental exhibits, estate survey, tithe materials, or archival maps.