APPLESHAW MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The exact TNA/MDR record F237889 is identified as Appleshaw Manor in Appleshaw, Hampshire. The associated historical evidence places the manor house in Appleshaw and distinguishes the manor from nearby Redenham and other manors mentioned in combined transactions.
Representative point: 51.2402, -1.5656
Basis: documented_manor_house — The surviving Manor House at Appleshaw is a Grade II listed early-19th-century house explicitly named Manor House, with National Grid Reference SU3034949031, equivalent to approximately 51.2402, -1.5656 WGS84.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms the manor-house location and indicates that the manorial rights concerned the hamlet or township of Appleshaw, including commons and waste, with some property associated with the manor lying outside the parish in the bounds of the manor of Weyhill. A 1696 transaction refers to the manors of Appleshaw, Redenham and Hurstbourne Priors together with more than 320 acres of land, meadow and common pasture, but does not provide a separable mapped perimeter for Appleshaw Manor. The available 1818 enclosure and 1839-1840 tithe-map references concern the parish and titheable land rather than a clearly identified boundary of the manor itself. It would therefore be unsafe to substitute the modern civil parish or construct a polygon from it.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Appleshaw Manor, TNA/MDR record F237889: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F237889 — Registry record identifying the manor as Appleshaw Manor in Appleshaw, Hampshire.
- Historic England: Manor House, Appleshaw: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229172 — Lists the surviving Manor House at Appleshaw and gives National Grid Reference SU3034949031, supporting the representative point.
- Historic England: Manor House Lodge, Appleshaw: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1093080 — Identifies the lodge as being at the entrance to the Manor House and confirms the manor-house complex in Appleshaw.
- Clutterbuck, Notes on the parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Penton Mewsey, Weyhill and Wherwell: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Notes_on_the_parishes_of_Fyfield%2C_Kimpton%2C_Penton_Mewsey%2C_Weyhill_and_Wherwell_in_the_county_of_Hampshire_%28IA_notesonparisheso00clut%29.pdf — States that James Edwards was lord of the Manor of Appleshaw and entitled to the soil of the commons and waste within the hamlet or township of Appleshaw; also notes that some property of the manor lay within the parish boundaries of the manor of Weyhill.
- A Short History of Appleshaw Village: https://appleshawvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/appleshaw-a-short-history.pdf — Summarizes the succession of lords of Appleshaw Manor and records the 1696 transaction involving the manors of Appleshaw, Redenham and Hurstbourne Priors plus more than 320 acres of land, meadow and common pasture.
- Hampshire County Council: Maps and plans: https://www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/archives/popular-records/maps-plans — Confirms that Hampshire holds parish enclosure and tithe maps, but these are parish-level sources and do not by themselves establish the historical boundary of Appleshaw Manor.
- The National Archives: Appleshaw tithe map and award, 1839-1840: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2009/09returns/09ac41.htm — Confirms the existence of the Appleshaw tithe map and award at Hampshire Archives, useful for future parcel-level reconstruction but not sufficient here to define a manor boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable source located supplies a distinct, mappable perimeter for Appleshaw Manor.
- Do not use the modern Appleshaw civil-parish boundary as a proxy for the manorial extent.
- The 1696 reference to more than 320 acres applies to a combined transaction involving Appleshaw, Redenham and Hurstbourne Priors and cannot be assigned wholly to Appleshaw Manor.
- The representative point is suitable for location injection, but a boundary polygon requires examination of the 1803 survey, the 1818 enclosure material, the 1839-1840 tithe map and award, and the relevant court rolls or rentals at Hampshire Archives.