ASHBY FOLVILLE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name, historical variant Ashby Folvile, Ashby Folville location, and authority/reference GB/NNAF/M309223 identify the manor associated with the documented listed manor house at Ashby Folville, Gaddesby, Leicestershire. Historic England records the building as Ashby Folville Manor at National Grid Reference SK 70782 11895.
Representative point: 52.7001, -0.9540
Basis: documented_manor_house — Historic England's official listing for Ashby Folville Manor gives National Grid Reference SK 70782 11895, corresponding to approximately 52.7001, -0.9540 WGS84. The house is a mid-seventeenth-century manor house, substantially rebuilt after a fire in 1891-1893.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence confirms the manor house and provides historical indications of associated land, but does not provide a sufficiently explicit, source-mappable perimeter for the manorial land itself. A Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society account reports approximately 1,000 acres in Ashby, 120 acres in adjacent Newbold, and a similar acreage in Gaddesby among Countess Judith's Domesday-era holdings; this is valuable historical context but is not a documented boundary of the exact later manor record. The nineteenth-century parish acreage and later Ashby Folville estate acreage cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- Historic England: Ashby Folville Manor, List Entry 1360827: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360827 — Official identification of Ashby Folville Manor; location at National Grid Reference SK 70782 11895; description of the mid-seventeenth-century manor house and its 1891-1893 rebuilding.
- The National Archives: Ashby Folville Manor, TNA/MDR record F285193: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F285193 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor, including authority/reference GB/NNAF/M309223.
- Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society: Resolving the Flaws of Previously Published Folville Pedigrees: https://lahs.org.uk/blog/resolving-the-flaws-of-previously-published-folville-pedigrees — Historical context linking Ashby Folville with Newbold and Gaddesby and reporting approximate Domesday-era landholdings; does not establish a later manor boundary.
- Architects of Greater Manchester: Ashby Folville Manor near Melton Mowbray: https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/buildings/ashby-folville-manor-near-melton-mowbray-leicestershire — Confirms the historic manor-house site, its earlier H-plan arrangement, rebuilding after fire, and reference to an ancient estate map without reproducing a sufficiently usable boundary.
- Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1899, via Forebears: https://forebears.io/england/leicestershire/ashby-folville — Records the Manor House at Ashby Folville and gives nineteenth-century parish statistics; parish acreage is not treated as the manor's territorial extent.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- Do not use the modern civil parish of Gaddesby, the former parish of Ashby Folville, or the nineteenth-century parish area as a substitute manor polygon.
- The reported Domesday-era acreage associated with Ashby, Newbold and Gaddesby is historical context rather than a verified perimeter for the registry manor.
- The representative coordinate identifies the documented manor-house site and is suitable for point injection, but no historically defensible boundary polygon was established.