ASCOT MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's alternative name Fynes Manor matches the documented Fynes or Fiennes manor of Ascott in Great Milton, Oxfordshire. Historical research identifies Fynes Manor as one of two medieval manors at Ascott; it remained separate from Quatremains Manor until 1510, when Robert Dormer acquired it. The supplied 1502-1503 court-roll reference is consistent with this manorial identity.
Representative point: 51.67860, -1.11390
Basis: documented_manor_house — Ascott Manor, formerly Ascott Farmhouse, is a documented early-17th-century manor-house building at National Grid Reference SU 61366 98131. Historic England records it as formerly part of the Ascott estate, and the associated archaeological survey identifies the surviving Ascott Manor/Ascott Park Cottage as probably a fragment of the historic manor-house complex.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; Fynes Manor documented as a distinct manor at Ascott by the 15th century and acquired by Robert Dormer in 1510.
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available evidence establishes the manor's location at Ascott and distinguishes Fynes Manor from the separate Quatremains Manor, but does not provide a reliable perimeter for the historical Fynes/Ascot manorial land. The 16-hectare Ascott Park boundary is a later designed-landscape boundary and must not be substituted for the medieval or early-modern manor extent. The wider Ascott township/parish area likewise cannot safely be treated as the manor boundary.
Sources:
- Historic England: Ascott Manor, Stadhampton, list entry 1368741: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1368741 — Documents Ascott Manor at SU 61366 98131, identifies the early-17th-century house, and states that it was formerly part of the Ascott estate.
- Historic England Research Department Report: Ascott Park, Stadhampton, Analytical Earthwork Survey of a 17th-Century Park and Garden: https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/5628/AscottParkStadhamptonOxfordshire_analyticalearthworksurveyofa17thcenturyparkandgarden — States that Fynes Manor was one of the two manors at Ascott, traces its descent, and records Robert Dormer's acquisition of Fynes Manor in 1510. It also discusses the likely surviving manor-house fragment and the uncertainty over the precise earlier house site.
- Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record via Heritage Gateway: Site of Ascott Manor House, MOX6109: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1033&uid=MOX6109 — Records the site of Ascott Manor House at approximately SU 611 982 and describes a substantial early-17th-century manor-house site associated with the historic Ascott manor.
- Richard Quatremains: a 15th-century Squire and his Family, Oxoniensia: https://www.oxoniensia.org/volumes/1986/driver.pdf — Identifies the Ascot manor in Great Milton as known in the 15th century as Fynes or Fiennes Manor.
- The National Archives: Manorial Documents Register record F285842: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F285842 — Registry record for ASCOT MANOR, with the alternative name Fynes Manor and location Great Milton, Oxfordshire.
- The National Archives: court roll reference MS. D. D. Bertie c. 16/20: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17050166 — Supplied archival lead for a 1502-1503 court roll involving the manor.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor but should not be interpreted as the complete historical territorial extent.
- The precise medieval manor-house site is uncertain; the point uses the documented surviving Ascott Manor building rather than the less precisely located earlier house site.
- No historical polygon is returned because the available sources do not document or reconstruct the Fynes Manor perimeter without speculative substitution of the later Ascott Park or modern administrative boundaries.