ASCOT MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The Berkshire location, the 1729 quit-rent record, and independent historical evidence identify Ascot Manor with the historic Ascot Place estate at Ascot in the parish of Winkfield. A nineteenth-century guide explicitly describes Daniel Agace of Ascot Place as lord of the manor of Ascot, while Historic England records an earlier manor farm/manor-house element on the Ascot Place estate.
Representative point: 51.4337, -0.6863
Basis: documented_manor_house — Ascot Place, historically associated with the manor of Ascot; Historic England identifies the former small manor house/manor-farm element beside the stable yard and gives National Grid Reference SU9113971659 for the estate.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence establishes the manor and its principal house/estate location but does not provide a defensible historical boundary for the manorial land. The approximately 400-acre Ascot Place park described in local historical material and the Historic England registered park-and-garden boundary cannot safely be treated as identical to the medieval or later legal extent of Ascot Manor.
Sources:
- Historic England: Ascot Place, Winkfield – Register of Parks and Gardens, entry 1000580: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000580?section=comments-and-photos — Places Ascot Place in Winkfield, gives NGR SU9113971659, describes the earlier manor-farm/manor-house element beside the stable yard, and documents the historic estate and park development.
- The National Archives: Ascot Manor record F241792: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241792 — Registry record for the exact manor identified as Ascot Manor in Winkfield, Berkshire.
- The National Archives: 1729 quit rents, reference D/EB/981/M1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14372459 — Existing record lead for Ascot Manor, held by Royal Berkshire Archives and dated 1729.
- Visitants' Guide to Windsor Castle and its Vicinity: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/The_visitants%27_guide_to_Windsor_Castle_and_its_vicinity_%28IA_visitantsguideto00windiala%29.pdf — Historical description identifies Daniel Agace of Ascot Place as lord of the manor of Ascot and states that the property formerly belonged to Abingdon Abbey.
- A Circuit of Wineca's Field (Winkfield): https://wildservice.org.uk/FHD/cpf-pdf/Winkfield_POI.pdf — Local historical account associates Ascot Place with a medieval manor house and describes the historic estate as bounded by Forest Road, Hatchet Lane, Pigeonhouse Lane and Braziers Lane; used as contextual evidence only, not as a legal manor boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The Ascot Place registered park and garden is an estate-landscape designation, not proof of the full historical legal extent of Ascot Manor.
- No reliable manor map, terrier, rental map, enclosure map, or other source was located that would justify injecting a historical manor polygon.