ASHOLME

Identity: confirmed — The Northumberland Archives manor-history file identifies ASHOLME, alias Asholme and West Coanwood, as a manor in the Barony of Wark. It matches the supplied Lambley, Northumberland context and the listed Asholme-related rentals, court records, steward papers and rentals. Historical descriptions distinguish Asholme as a separate manor and township, situated on the east bank of the South Tyne opposite Lambley.
Representative point: 54.9171, -2.4922
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Ashholme Farmhouse is at OS National Grid NY 68547 58150. Asholme was the seat of the Wallace family and the surviving Ashholme Farmhouse and associated buildings provide the best documented surviving manorial or estate-centre location. The coordinate is converted from the Historic England National Grid reference.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Historical manor; evidence available from the medieval/early-modern records through the nineteenth century
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish Asholme as a separate manor and township, but do not provide an accessible manor map, mapped rental, enclosure plan, tithe plan, or explicit perimeter sufficient to reconstruct the manorial land boundary. The 1855 description gives the combined acreage of the joint Lambley and Asholme townships as 2,698 acres, while separately locating Asholme on the east bank of the Tyne; that combined figure cannot safely be used as an Asholme-only polygon. The East and West Coanwood boundary-riding evidence concerns the neighbouring Coanwood manors and does not define the Asholme perimeter.
Sources:
- Northumberland Archives, Manor History File: Asholme: https://northumberlandarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Manor-History-File-ASHOLME.pdf — Identifies Asholme; alias Asholme and West Coanwood; Honour/Lordship Barony of Wark; Wallace ownership and estate context; and the relevant Northumberland Archives and Alnwick Castle records.
- The National Archives, TNA/MDR record F282485: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F282485 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor, associated with authority/reference GB/NNAF/M305752.
- Ashholme Farmhouse and Adjacent Farmbuildings, Historic England list entry 1370624: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1370624 — Documents the surviving Ashholme farmhouse and farmbuildings at National Grid NY 68547 58150; the house is dated 1751.
- Ashholme, Co-Curate / Newcastle University collections: https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/ashholme/ — Locates Ashholme as a hamlet and former township in the ancient parish of Lambley, describes it as the seat of the Wallace family, and gives the local grid reference.
- Lambley Parish, 1855, Co-Curate: https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/lambley-parish-1855/ — States that Lambley parish comprised the joint townships of Lambley and Asholme, and separately describes Asholme as a joint township and manor on the east bank of the Tyne.
- Northumberland Archives catalogue, Asholme-related records: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16806273 — Provides the 1775-1815 Asholme-related rental lead, reference ZHW/4/1-10, supporting the identification of the manor estate records.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No historically defensible polygon was located in the accessible sources. Do not substitute the modern Coanwood civil-parish boundary, the ancient Lambley parish boundary, the combined 2,698-acre Lambley-and-Asholme area, or the modern Asholme/Coanwood settlement footprint for the manor boundary.
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor or its surviving estate centre, but it should not be interpreted as the centroid or full territorial extent of the historical manor.