AMBERLEY

Identity: confirmed — The registry location and historical name Aumbresle correspond to Amberley in Marden, Herefordshire: the Herefordshire place-name record gives Amberley forms including Amburlege (1086), Aumbresle (1243), Ambresleye (1291) and Aumburleye (1327). Amberley Court is a surviving early-14th-century hall house at the historic settlement and is the strongest identified manorial centre. Fromanton is associated with the same Marden-area holding context in a 1413 conveyance listing property in Amberley, Sutton, Marden, Formanton, Wisteston and Withington, but this does not by itself establish a separate or complete manor boundary.
Representative point: 52.1267, -2.6649
Basis: documented_manor_house — Amberley Court, Amberley, Marden, Herefordshire, is a Grade I-listed early-14th-century hall house at NGR SO 54580 47808; the published geographic position is approximately 52°07′36.12″N, 2°39′53.6″W.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; no single securely documented perimeter established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms the manor's location and provides historical territorial clues, but does not supply a manor map, metes-and-bounds description, or parcel reconstruction sufficient to draw a defensible polygon. The 19th-century figure of 377 acres for the township of Amberley cannot safely be substituted for the manorial extent, and the 1413 property list spans several Marden-area places without defining a continuous boundary.
Sources:
- Historic England: Amberley Court, Marden, List Entry 1302188: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1302188 — Identifies Amberley Court in Marden at NGR SO 54580 47808 and describes it as an exceptionally important early-14th-century hall house.
- Herefordshire Place-names: Amberley: https://www.melocki.org.uk/places/A.html — Records the historical forms Amburlege, Aumbresle, Ambresleye, Aumburleye and Amberley for Amberley in Marden.
- Feet of Fines CP 25/1/83/53, number 2: https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_83_53.shtml — A 1413 Herefordshire conveyance lists property and the advowson of Amberley in connection with Amberley, Sutton, Marden, Formanton, Wisteston and Withington.
- W. E. Griffiths, The Harpers and the Greenways: https://www.woolhopeclub.org.uk/system/files/documents/transaction/woolhope-club-transactions-volume-xl-1971-part-ii.pdf — Discusses Amberley and Fromanton within the territorial and ownership context of the manor of Marden, including the 1553 transfer involving lands in Amberley and Fromanton.
- Amberley, Herefordshire geographic reference: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category%3AAmberley_Court%2C_Herefordshire — Provides the approximate geographic position of Amberley Court as 52°07′36.12″N, 2°39′53.6″W.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- Do not confuse this manor with Amberley Manor or Amberley Castle in West Sussex.
- No historically defensible manorial polygon was found; the modern township, parish or civil-parish boundary must not be used as a substitute.
- The association of Fromanton with the record is supported by historical landholding evidence but does not prove that all of Fromanton formed part of Amberley Manor.