ANWICK MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name ANWICK MANOR, location Sleaford/Lincolnshire, and saved forms Anwyk and Hanewic correspond to Anwick in the Sleaford area. Hanewic/Haniwic are recorded historical forms of Anwick, and Domesday evidence records two manorial holdings there, establishing the historical manorial location while also indicating that the manor's landholding was divided between lords.
Representative point: 53.0423, -0.3383
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Old Manor Farm on Church Lane, Anwick, is a documented historic farmstead/manor-house site associated with the settlement's manorial centre. The listed-building record cautions that it was incorrectly described as a manor house on some Ordnance Survey material, so this is used as the best supported manorial-centre proxy rather than as a definitively proven surviving medieval manor house.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes Anwick as the manor's historical location but does not provide a manor-specific boundary, estate map, survey, rental with mapped parcels, or other reliable perimeter evidence. Domesday records two separate holdings at Anwick, and the documented acreage of the later parish cannot safely be substituted for the manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: ANWICK MANOR, record F292042: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F292042 — Registry record for the exact supplied manor; the public page provides the TNA/MDR record identity and reference.
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: Settlement of Anwick, MLI83279: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI83279 — Identifies Anwick in North Kesteven, records its Domesday appearance, and states that Geoffrey Alselin held a berewic there belonging to a manor in Ruskington while Drogo de Beuvriere also held land there.
- Open Domesday: Anwick: https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1150/anwick/ — Records the two Domesday holdings at Anwick, including the land of Drogo of la Beuvriere and the land of Geoffrey Alselin, confirming historical manorial occupation and divided tenure.
- Historic England-derived listing: Old Manor Farm, Anwick, list entry 1061830: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061830 — Locates the historic Old Manor Farm at NGR TF1150150734, approximately 53.0423,-0.3383, and describes the surviving sixteenth-century/1639 building; the listing notes that its former description as a manor house was incorrect.
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: Greater Lincolnshire Farmsteads Project, SLI15702: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Source/SLI15702 — Lists MLI120937, Old Manor Farm (Manor House), Anwick, as a historic farmstead/monument record, supporting its use as a manorial-centre location while not proving the full territorial extent.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is a defensible historical-centre proxy, not proof that the surviving Old Manor Farm building was the medieval manor house.
- No manor-specific historical boundary has been located; do not inject a polygon based on the modern civil parish or parish acreage.
- Domesday evidence indicates divided holdings at Anwick, so the manor record may represent a composite or subsequently consolidated manorial title rather than a single compact estate.