ASHLEY MANOR

Identity: likely — The exact primary name is corroborated by Historic England's listed-building record for Ashley Manor in Ashley, civil parish of Box, Wiltshire. The record describes the building as a manor house, gives its historical Long and Northey ownership, and identifies it on the 1630 F. Allen map. The registry location Bradford-on-Avon appears to be a cataloguing locality rather than the manor's precise site; Bradford-on-Avon is the associated nearby town.
Representative point: 51.413438, -2.270074
Basis: documented_manor_house — Historic England National Grid Reference ST 81314 68303 for Ashley Manor, converted to decimal WGS84 coordinates.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available evidence establishes the manor house and its historical association with Ashley, but no authoritative source located in this research supplies a mapped or explicitly described perimeter of the historical Ashley manorial land. The modern Box parish boundary, Ashley settlement extent, listed-building curtilage, and present private estate acreage were not substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- Ashley Manor, Historic England National Heritage List for England, entry 1363630: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1363630 — Identifies Ashley Manor in Ashley, parish of Box, Wiltshire; gives NGR ST 81314 68303; describes it as a C17 manor house with earlier origins; records Long-family ownership in the 16th and 17th centuries, Northey ownership from the 18th to 20th centuries, and its depiction on F. Allen's 1630 map.
- Ashley Manor, Historic England Archive image record: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/IOE01/16802/31 — Confirms the named historic building as Ashley Manor, Box, Wiltshire, and associates it with the manor-house site.
- Box community history, Wiltshire Council: https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/24 — Places Ashley within Box parish and distinguishes Ashley Manor House as a 17th-century house with earlier origins.
- The National Archives Discovery record F272956: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F272956 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor-name match and archival identity lead.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor should not be represented by the modern Bradford-on-Avon boundary or by the whole modern Box parish.
- No defensible historical manorial polygon was found; only the manor-house location is safe to inject.
- There are other English manors named Ashley, so the Ashley/Box/Wiltshire identification is essential.