ASHTON GIFFARD MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name, Codford location, TNA/MDR record F273066, authority GB/NNAF/M291128, and the associated archival records all identify the historical manor and later tything of Ashton Gifford in Codford St Peter, Wiltshire. Historical sources also record the place as Ashton Giffard and, in the late fourteenth century, Ashton Dunstanville.
Representative point: 51.16010, -2.05715
Basis: documented_estate_centre — Ashton Gifford House, at National Grid Reference ST 96071 39998, is the documented historic country-house and estate centre of Ashton Gifford. The house and its associated estate are directly connected with the former manor and later tything.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available online evidence establishes the manor's location in the Ashton Gifford tything of Codford St Peter but does not provide an inspectable historical manor-boundary polygon. The 1793 Arundel Castle map is identified in the archive catalogue, and the 1814 enclosure legislation concerns lands belonging to the Tything of Ashton Gifford; neither available catalogue evidence supplies sufficient mapped perimeter coordinates. The tything, parish, modern civil-parish and later estate boundaries must not be substituted for the historical manorial boundary.
Sources:
- Historic England, Ashton Gifford House, List Entry 1181007: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1181007 — Identifies Ashton Gifford House in Codford, Wiltshire, and gives National Grid Reference ST 96071 39998, supporting the representative point.
- Heritage Gateway, Ashton Gifford House, Historic England Research Record 542828: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=19191&uid=542828 — Confirms the historic house site at ST 96071 39998 and describes its association with the Ashton Gifford estate and later history.
- The National Archives, TNA/MDR record F273066: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F273066 — Registry record for Ashton Giffard Manor, located at Codford, Wiltshire, with authority/reference GB/NNAF/M291128.
- Arundel Castle Archives, Ashton Gifford in Codford St Peter, map, 1793, TP280: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16167936 — Archive catalogue identifies a 1793 map of Ashton Gifford in Codford St Peter, providing a direct historical mapping lead but not an online boundary polygon.
- Arundel Castle Archives, rental, 1481-1482: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16163965 — Records an early rental for Ashton Gifford among the Arundel Castle manor materials, supporting the manor's historical identity.
- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, historical place-name and manor evidence: https://file.iflora.cn/fastdfs/group1/M00/64/C7/wKhnoF2d-LiAQl6uAdFu-tNY92M544.pdf — States that Ashton Giffard is now a tything in the parish of Codford St Peter and distinguishes it from the separate Codford holdings.
- Mapping the Medieval Countryside, Inquisition Post Mortem for Thomas Huls, 1421: https://inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/21-864/ — Records a share of the manor of Ashton Gifford and links it to the advowson of Codford St Peter, corroborating the medieval manorial identity and location.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is the documented Ashton Gifford House and estate centre, not necessarily the site of the earliest medieval manor house.
- No defensible historical manor-boundary polygon was located in the accessible online evidence.
- The 1814 enclosure material concerns the Tything of Ashton Gifford and should not automatically be treated as the complete medieval or early-modern manor boundary.
- The 1793 map reference is highly relevant for further archival research, but its catalogue entry alone does not justify reconstructing a polygon.