ARLINGTON RECTORY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's saved historical name Woodhorne matches the documented Woodhorne manor in Arlington, Sussex. Historical and ecclesiastical sources identify Arlington's rectory as attached to the prebend of Woodhorne, while local and heritage records locate Woodhorne Manor House in Arlington near St Pancras Church.
Representative point: 50.846589, 0.192349
Basis: documented_manor_house — Coordinate of the listed Woodhorne Manor House, Tye Hill Lane, Arlington, identified as the surviving manor house associated with the Woodhorne historical name.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The surviving evidence confirms the manor's location but does not provide an accessible, sufficiently precise historical perimeter for the manorial land. The 1650 parliamentary survey reference may contain valuable extent information, but no mapped boundary or explicit parcel perimeter was available from the accessible catalogue evidence. The modern Arlington parish or conservation-area boundary must not be substituted.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Arlington Rectory Manor, F254798: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F254798 — Registry record for the exact manor, including the primary name and historical name Woodhorne.
- Woodhorne Manor House, Historic England listing 1043326: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043326 — Documents the surviving Woodhorne Manor House in Arlington; the associated National Heritage List coordinate is 50.846589, 0.192349 and the listing gives the historic address and National Grid reference.
- Woodhorne Manor House, Planning Data: https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity/31501061 — Provides the WGS84 point geometry for listed building 1043326: POINT (0.192349 50.846589).
- Arlington – St Pancras, Sussex Parish Churches: https://sussexparishchurches.org/church/arlington-st-pancras/ — Places the historic manor/church complex in Arlington and records evidence for former structures near St Pancras Church.
- Open Research Online: historical study of Sussex rectories and prebends: https://oro.open.ac.uk/63740/1/27775849.pdf — Identifies Arlington's rectory patronage with the prebend of Woodhorne and discusses the former Arlington parsonage and rectory-manor context.
- Sussex Archaeological Collections, Early Churchwardens' Accounts, Arlington: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Sussex_archaeological_collections_relating_to_the_history_and_antiquities_of_the_county_%28IA_sussexarchaeolog54suss%29.pdf — Connects Arlington's rectory with the prebend of Woodhorne in Chichester Cathedral.
- The National Archives: 1650 parliamentary survey, Cap/1/30/3 ff.363-379: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14709829 — Existing registry research lead for a survey potentially relevant to the manor's territorial extent; accessible catalogue information did not expose a usable boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor-house location is well supported, but the exact historical manorial land boundary remains unestablished.
- Do not use Arlington parish, civil parish, conservation-area, ward, postcode, or modern property boundaries as substitutes for the manor boundary.
- The point represents the documented surviving manor house, not necessarily the geometric centre of all historical manorial lands.