ARDSLEY MANOR

Identity: likely — The registry record places Ardsley Manor in Darfield, Yorkshire, matching the historic township of Ardsley formerly within Darfield parish. Historic England records a former manor house named Ardsley Manor House on Doncaster Road in Ardsley at NGR SE 38545 05701. However, historical evidence indicates that medieval Ardsley was divided into three manors, so the surviving house cannot be proven from the available sources to represent every holding associated with the specific MDR entry.
Representative point: 53.5466, -1.4198
Basis: documented_manor_house — Ardsley Manor House and Ardsley Manor Cottage, Doncaster Road, Ardsley; Historic England NGR SE 38545 05701, converted to approximate WGS84 coordinates.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor-house location and the general historic association with Ardsley township, but does not provide a manor-specific estate map, survey, rental map, enclosure plan, or other reliable perimeter evidence. The township, parish, or modern administrative boundary cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent. Local historical evidence also states that medieval Ardsley contained three separate manors.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Ardsley Manor, MDR record F243370: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F243370 — Registry authority/reference GB/NNAF/M170094 and record identity for Ardsley Manor in Darfield, Yorkshire.
- Historic England: Ardsley Manor House and Ardsley Manor Cottage, listing 1151150: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1151150 — Identifies the surviving former manor house on Doncaster Road and gives National Grid Reference SE 38545 05701.
- History of Ardsley: https://ardsleyresidents.com/history-of-ardsley.html — Describes Ardsley as formerly within Darfield parish, records its medieval open fields, and states that medieval Ardsley was divided into three manors.
- Worsbrough: historical study, University of York White Rose repository: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3517/1/361700.pdf — Scholarly contextual evidence identifies the Ardsley manor as adjacent to Worsbrough and discusses its historical relationship with the Micklethwait family and Darfield-area manors.
- The National Archives: Ardsley Manor estreats, 1360–1361: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14352027 — Existing archival research lead for medieval Ardsley Manor records held by Sheffield City Archives, reference Wh M 1.
- The National Archives: Ardsley Manor estreats, 1386–1387: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14268314 — Existing archival research lead for late-fourteenth-century Ardsley Manor records held by Sheffield City Archives, reference Wh M 1.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The surviving Ardsley Manor House is a strong representative location but the exact linkage to this particular MDR record is not explicit in the accessible sources.
- Ardsley was historically divided into three manors; therefore the extent of one manor should not be inferred from the whole township or parish.
- No historically defensible manor-specific polygon was found.