ASHBY WITH OBY WITH THURNE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The supplied TNA/MDR record F238009 and authority reference GB/NNAF/M167918 identify the exact registry manor. The associated Ashby-with-Oby locality is historically connected with Oby Manor Farm/Manor House, while the archival court rolls, rentals, admissions and enfranchisement records supplied as research leads confirm a continuing manorial jurisdiction in this locality. Historical sources also show that Ashby, Oby and Thurne were ecclesiastically united in 1604, but this does not by itself establish that their modern or ecclesiastical boundary was the manor boundary.
Representative point: 52.6733, 1.5724
Basis: documented_manor_house — Manor Farmhouse/Oby Manor Farm, Ashby with Oby, is identified by Historic England at OS National Grid Reference TG4161114392, equivalent to approximately 52.6733, 1.5724. Norfolk Heritage Explorer identifies the surviving Manor Farmhouse buildings as standing on the site of Oby, and contemporary estate evidence refers to the Oby Manor House Estate.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established from the available online evidence
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The research located reliable evidence for the manor-house/manorial centre and for a later Oby Manor House Estate of approximately 288 acres in 1905, but no accessible manor map, survey, rental map, enclosure award, tithe map or other source that defines the complete historical perimeter of the exact Ashby-with-Oby-with-Thurne manor. The 1604 ecclesiastical union and modern parish extent cannot safely be substituted for a manorial boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Ashby with Oby with Thurne Manor, F238009: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F238009 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identity.
- Historic England: Manor Farmhouse, Ashby with Oby, List Entry 1051013: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1051013 — Documents Manor Farmhouse in Ashby with Oby at NGR TG4161114392 and identifies it as a dated 1622 farmhouse, providing the defensible manor-house coordinate.
- Norfolk Heritage Explorer: Parish Summary—Ashby with Oby: https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?TNF118-Parish-Summary-Ashby-with-Oby= — States that the barns at Manor Farmhouse stand on the site of Oby and identifies Manor Farmhouse as one of the locality's oldest surviving buildings.
- Norfolk Mills: Ashby Oby drainage and sawmill: https://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/WindmillsD/ashby-oby-drainage.html — Describes Oby drainage mill as being on the Oby Manor House Estate and reproduces a 1905 sale notice for an estate comprising the Manor House, buildings and 288 acres 2 roods 37 perches.
- Norfolk Record Office: Parish registers and transcripts summary: https://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/media/14758/Parish-Registers-And-Transcripts-Summary/pdf/8kparish-registers-and-transcripts-summary.pdf?m=1701429456843 — Records Ashby with Oby under Thurne, supporting the historical association of the three place-names but not establishing a manor boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The exact registry title combines Ashby, Oby and Thurne, but nineteenth-century directory evidence distinguishes references to the manor of Thurne with Ashby and Oby from the manor of Oby with Thurne; these may represent historically distinct manorial holdings later administered or described together.
- The 1905 figure of 288 acres applies to the advertised Oby Manor House Estate and should not be treated as the complete medieval or early-modern extent of the registered manor.
- No historical polygon is returned because the accessible evidence does not document the full manorial perimeter.