ASHENDON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record, Ashendon location, alternative forms Assedune and Essendon, and the cited medieval and post-medieval records all identify the manor of Ashendon in Buckinghamshire. The 1391-1392 extent explicitly associates the Ashendon lordship with Great and Little Pollicott, while the 1641 and 1739-1740 maps are specifically maps of the town and manor of Ashendon.
Representative point: 51.82248, -0.97963
Basis: documented_manor_house — Approximate WGS84 conversion of OS National Grid reference SP 70420 14250, recorded by the Buckinghamshire Historic Environment Record as the site of Ashendon manor house shown on the 1641 estate map. The record also cites the 1334 capital messuage and the 1392 well-built capital messuage belonging to the manor.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern, with particular evidence for 1391-1392 and 1641-1740
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor-house site and shows that the Ashendon lordship was historically associated with Great and Little Pollicott, but the accessible catalogue descriptions do not provide a digitised perimeter or enough explicit boundary landmarks to reconstruct the manorial territory reliably. The parish boundary cannot be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- Buckinghamshire Historic Environment Record: Ashendon manor house, monument record 0224401000: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MBC6549 — Records the medieval to post-medieval manor house, gives grid reference SP 70420 14250, states that the 1641 estate map shows the manor house, and cites the 1334 and 1392 capital-messuage evidence.
- Buckinghamshire's Heritage Portal: Ashendon: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/theme/tbc736 — States that the 1641 estate map recorded the site of Ashendon manor house, which has since disappeared, and distinguishes Ashendon manor from the separate Pollicott manor complex.
- Heritage assessment concerning Ashendon: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/api/LibraryLinkWebServiceProxy/FetchResource/46051/full_46051.pdf — Summarises the pre-Conquest division of Ashendon and Pollicott, identifies the Ashendon manor-house location as SP 7042 1425, and explains the medieval relationship of Ashendon manor to Great and Little Pollicott.
- The National Archives: Ashendon manor record F240815: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F240815 — Registry authority record for the exact manor identified as Ashendon Manor.
- The National Archives: 1332-1333 extent, rental and custumal, SC11/800: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14268973 — Contemporary medieval extent and rental record supplied as a direct research lead for Ashendon manor.
- The National Archives: 1391-1392 extent with Crendon, DL43/14/3: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14245296 — Extent supplied as a direct research lead; the associated historical summary identifies the Ashendon lordship with Great and Little Pollicott.
- Buckinghamshire Archives: 1641 map of the town and manor of Ashendon, BAS Maps 13: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14336603 — Direct map record supplied as a research lead and corroborated by the Historic Environment Record as depicting the manor-house site.
- Buckinghamshire Archives: 1739-1740 maps of the manor of Ashendon, BAS Maps 15-16: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14335433 — Direct later estate-map records supplied as research leads; catalogue evidence confirms mapping of the manor, but accessible data do not expose a boundary suitable for polygon reconstruction.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is the documented historical manor-house site, not the modern village centroid.
- No defensible historical manorial boundary polygon was established from the accessible evidence; the modern civil-parish boundary and the broader Ashendon Hundred were deliberately not used as substitutes.
- The manor's historical relationship with Great and Little Pollicott does not by itself prove that every part of the later parish or both Pollicott manors formed one continuous territorial polygon.