ANSTY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry location and associated place identify Ansty in Wiltshire. The Wiltshire Ansty manor was historically held by the Knights Hospitaller, later by John Zouche and the Arundells of Wardour, matching the supplied Wiltshire archive references and the surviving listed Manor House.
Representative point: 51.03635, -2.06382
Basis: documented_manor_house — The surviving Grade II* listed Manor House in Ansty village, formerly Manor Farmhouse and formerly the property of the Arundells of Wardour. Historic England gives its National Grid Reference as ST 95605 26357.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence confirms the manor house and establishes that Ansty Manor was a substantial historical manorial estate, but does not provide an accessible, complete and unambiguous perimeter for the manor itself. The 1769 material is described as a detailed plan of part of the manor, while the listed archive references identify surveys and rentals without supplying a verifiable full boundary polygon. The modern parish boundary has not been substituted for the manorial boundary.
Sources:
- The Manor House, Ansty - Historic England National Heritage List entry 1300354: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1300354 — Identifies the Grade II* Manor House in Ansty, gives NGR ST 95605 26357, describes the house as a 16th-century building, and records its former association with the Arundells of Wardour.
- Ansty, Wiltshire - Victoria County History, Volume 13: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol13/pp93-100 — Authoritative parish history covering the descent and historical context of Ansty Manor, including the Knights Hospitaller, John Zouche and the Arundell ownership.
- TNA/MDR record F272884 - Ansty Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F272884 — Registry record matching the exact manor name, Wiltshire location and authority reference GB/NNAF/M290946.
- Ansty in Maps and Diagrams: https://www.anstywiltspc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/3-Ansty-in-Maps-and-diagrams-compressedv1.pdf — Local historical survey describing the 1769 plan as a detailed map of part of the Manor of Ansty, including Ansty Manor, the church, pond, enclosed fields and former common land; it does not establish a complete manor perimeter.
- Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre archive reference 2667/11/17: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16165108 — Catalogue entry for the 1593 survey of Ansty Manor in the Arundell of Wardour archive, supporting the historical identity and existence of manor-specific survey evidence.
- Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre archive reference 2667/11/277: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16168677 — Catalogue entry for the 1863 survey with Semley, demonstrating later manor survey material but not providing a directly usable complete boundary polygon in the accessible record.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for map injection as the documented manor-house location, not as the centre of the entire historical manorial territory.
- No historical manor boundary polygon is returned. Do not substitute the modern civil parish boundary for the manor boundary.
- The manor estate may have included agricultural parcels beyond the immediate village; its extent changed over time and requires examination of the original surveys, rentals, estate maps or associated archive plans.