ARUNDEL MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record is specifically located at Arundel, Sussex, and its saved alternative name directly equates the manor with Arundel Borough. The associated medieval and later court rolls, rentals, surveys and accounts are records of the borough/manor administered through Arundel Castle and its lords, rather than of another same-named manor.
Representative point: 50.85465, -0.55393
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Arundel Castle occupies the historic seigneurial centre of Arundel. Historic England identifies the castle site as originating with the creation of the earldom and as the centre of the associated castle, lands and Honour of Arundel; the castle is also the documented repository context for the manor's court rolls, surveys and rentals.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; a borough-boundary map survives from circa 1836
Boundary confidence: medium
Boundary basis: The manor's territorial identity appears to have been the historic borough of Arundel, distinct from the much larger Honour or Rape of Arundel and from the modern civil parish. A circa-1836 boundary map records the borough boundary, and the Arundel Castle archive catalogue records a 1272 extent of the Borough of Arundel plus later surveys and rentals. However, the available evidence does not provide a sufficiently reliable, georeferenced polygon of the manorial boundary for safe coordinate injection; the 1836 map is a borough-boundary source rather than an explicit modern geospatial dataset of the medieval manor.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Arundel Manor, F255158: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F255158 — Registry record identifying the manor as ARUNDEL MANOR at Arundel, Sussex, with authority GB/NNAF/M273197.
- Catalogue of British Town Maps: Sussex-Arundel-1836: https://townmaps.history.ac.uk/townmap/sussex-arundel-1836/ — Describes the circa-1836 Arundel borough-boundary map, based on Ordnance Survey mapping, covering the historic borough and recording the public boundary.
- Arundel Castle Archives: Surveys, particulars, valuations and books of reference to maps: https://www.arundelcastle.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Vol-2.pdf — Lists a copy of the 1272 extent of the Borough of Arundel and later surveys of Arundel and the Earl of Arundel's Sussex lands, confirming the archival territorial and manorial context.
- Historic England: Arundel Castle, List Entry 1000170: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000170 — States that the castle site formed part of the lands granted with the earldom in 1067, describes the castle's historic association with the Fitzalans and Howards, and locates the castle at the northern edge of Arundel.
- Arundel Castle, Parks and Gardens: https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/arundel-castle — Provides the representative castle location at approximately 50.8546496, -0.5539303 and identifies Arundel Castle as the principal historic building and estate centre.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- Do not substitute the modern civil parish, municipal borough, Honour of Arundel or Rape of Arundel for the manor boundary.
- The representative point is the castle/manorial centre, not proof that the entire castle park or Honour formed part of Arundel Borough Manor.
- A historical boundary polygon should only be created after obtaining and georeferencing the 1272 extent, a manor survey, or the circa-1836 borough-boundary map against a reliable base map.