ASHLEIGH MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's Ashleigh Manor in Lifton matches the historic Ashleigh/Ashlegh/Ashligh estate centred on Ashleigh Farm at SX 396 835. Local historic-environment evidence identifies Ashleigh Farm as the Domesday manor of Assileia and records Nicholas de Ashlegh holding Ashligh in 1243. The surviving farmhouse has a medieval core and is identified in the listing history as the former manor site.
Representative point: 50.6295, -4.2689
Basis: documented_manor_house — Ashleigh Farmhouse, the surviving medieval-core farmhouse and historic manor site at Ordnance Survey grid reference SX 396 835.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence confirms the manor's location and gives limited historical extent information: Domesday records 5 ploughlands, 8 acres of meadow and 2 acres of woodland. The supplied archive leads include surveys, rentals and leases, but the online catalogue entries do not expose a mapped manor perimeter. No reliable manor-specific boundary map or parcel reconstruction was located. The Lifton parish, civil-parish, modern estate and Hundred boundaries must not be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- Devon Historic Environment Record: Ashleigh Farm, Lifton (MDV15927): https://heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=104&uid=MDV15927 — Identifies Ashleigh Farm at SX 396 835; records it as the Domesday manor of Assileia, held by Ralph of Judhel of Totnes, and notes the medieval origins of the farmhouse and the 1243 Ashligh reference.
- Ashleigh, Lifton, Devon, Historic England listing source 1326330: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1326330 — Describes Ashleigh as a medieval-core farmhouse and preserves the listing NGR SX3962983543, supporting the representative manor-house location.
- Open Domesday: Ashleigh: https://opendomesday.org/place/SX3983/ashleigh/ — Identifies Ashleigh as a Domesday settlement and manor in Lifton hundred, with 10 households, 5 ploughlands, 8 acres of meadow and 2 acres of woodland.
- The National Archives Discovery: TNA/MDR record F276409: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F276409 — Registry record supplied for Ashleigh Manor, Lifton, Devon; used to confirm the exact registry identity.
- The National Archives Discovery: high rent receipts, 1706-1748, ref. 1499M/4/1/17: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16431641 — Archive lead associated with the manor; catalogue description supports continued historical documentary identification but provides no accessible boundary polygon.
- The National Archives Discovery: survey, 1755, ref. BM/17/56: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16433046 — Archive survey lead associated with Ashleigh Manor; the online catalogue record does not provide a mapped perimeter.
- The National Archives Discovery: survey, 1758, ref. BU/155: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16433117 — Archive survey lead associated with Ashleigh Manor; the online catalogue record does not provide a mapped perimeter.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is defensible as the documented surviving manor-house/farmhouse site, not as the centroid of the entire historical manor.
- No historically grounded perimeter could be established from the accessible evidence; no boundary polygon is supplied.
- Domesday acreage figures describe recorded resources but are insufficient to reconstruct a geographic boundary.
- The supplied 18th- and 19th-century survey, rental and lease references may contain further parcel evidence, but the catalogue pages alone do not expose their maps or detailed schedules.