ARLINGHAM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name, historical forms Erlingham and Erlyngham, Arlingham location, and the associated Berkeley and National Archives rentals, extents, court rolls and accounts identify the medieval and early-modern manor of Arlingham in Gloucestershire. The principal manorial centre was Arlingham Court, formerly situated opposite St Mary's Church. Wick Court is a separate historic house and Berkeley fishing-lodge site within the parish, and is not treated as the manor's territorial boundary.
Representative point: 51.7938, -2.4252
Basis: documented_manor_house — Approximate WGS84 conversion of Historic England's recorded National Grid references SO7075410617 and SO7069310590 for Arlingham Court and its dovecote; the former court stood opposite St Mary's Church at the site now associated with The Grove/Court Sands.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern manor; no securely mapped single-period perimeter established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The archival leads confirm the existence and administration of Arlingham Manor, including a 1298 extent, medieval rentals and court rolls, but the accessible online evidence does not provide the extent's parcel descriptions or a manor map from which a defensible polygon can be reconstructed. Domesday evidence associates Arlingham with Berkeley and records 1,400 acres, while the later 1,337-acre Arlingham Court Estate is documented as a nineteenth-century estate sold in 1919; neither figure can safely be converted into the historical manorial boundary. The parish, modern estate and flood-defence boundaries were therefore not substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Arlingham Manor, record F246177: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F246177 — Registry authority record for the exact manor identity and reference GB/NNAF/M225683.
- The National Archives: Extent of Arlingham Manor, 1298, C106/52 Part 1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14334776 — Confirms the existence of a medieval extent for the manor, but the online catalogue entry does not expose its geographic perimeter.
- Berkeley Castle muniments catalogue: Descriptive catalogue of charters and muniments: https://archive.org/details/descriptivecatal00fitzrich — The Berkeley archive description records a 1236 settlement concerning the manor of Arlingham, supporting its connection with the Berkeley manorial complex.
- Historic England: Arlingham Court, Dovecote, England's Places card 1425_150: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/englands-places/card/93390 — Records Arlingham Court and dovecote at National Grid references SO7075410617 and SO7069310590, providing the best accessible location evidence for the principal manor-house site.
- Historic England: Cemeteries, churchyards and burial grounds significance framework appendix: https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/7014/Cemeterieschurchyardsandburialgrounds_devisingandapplyingasignificanceframeworkappendix — Identifies the former Arlingham Court site near St Mary's Church and describes the surviving historic setting of the former court and park.
- Arlingham Parish Council: Village Pound statement and Arlingham Court Estate history: https://arlingham.co.uk/media/yl3hokxp/arlingham-pound.pdf — Documents the descent of Arlingham Court and states that the Arlingham Court Estate comprised 1,337 acres when divided and sold in 1919; useful contextual evidence but not sufficient to define the medieval manor boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative coordinate is an approximate point for the documented former Arlingham Court site, not a surveyed surviving building footprint.
- No defensible historical manorial polygon was found in the accessible evidence. The 1298 extent should be consulted in the original archival record before attempting parcel-level reconstruction.
- Arlingham parish, the 1919 Arlingham Court Estate, and the wider Berkeley territorial complex should not be treated as identical to the medieval manor without examining the underlying rentals, extent and maps.