ASHWELL MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record identifies Ashwell Manor in Diptford, Devon. Independent Devon manor listings place Ashwell in Diptford parish and Stanborough hundred, while Historic England records an Ashwell farmhouse in Diptford at SX 76377 55383. The exact Diptford context distinguishes this manor from other English manors named Ashwell.
Representative point: 50.3853, -3.7402
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Ashwell farmhouse, Diptford, at OS National Grid Reference SX 76377 55383, is the most precise surviving named Ashwell site identified in the historical locality. Historic England describes it as a late-16th- or early-17th-century farmhouse and lists it within Diptford; the evidence supports use as the manor's likely surviving manorial centre, but does not explicitly prove that the present farmhouse is the medieval manor house.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor's location in Diptford and identifies the Ashwell site, but does not provide a manor map, rental with mapped parcels, enclosure or tithe material tied specifically to Ashwell Manor, or another authoritative source defining its historical territorial perimeter. The modern parish boundary and the wider Diptford parish area cannot be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- Ashwell Including Garden Area Wall and Mounting Block Adjoining South, Diptford: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1324988 — Historic England identifies Ashwell in the civil parish of Diptford, Devon, and gives National Grid Reference SX 76377 55383; the listed building is a late-16th- or early-17th-century farmhouse.
- Ashwell Farmhouse, Diptford (BF088547): https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/volume/BF088547 — Historic England's RCHME archive volume confirms a named Ashwell Farmhouse site in Diptford, South Hams, Devon.
- Devon Manors: Names A-C: https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/DevonManors/list1 — The Devon manor index lists Ashwell in Diptford parish and Stanborough hundred.
- The National Archives: F276417: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F276417 — The registry/TNA record supplied for the research target is Ashwell Manor, associated with Diptford, Devon, under authority/reference GB/NNAF/M294475.
- Magna Britannia, Devonshire, Part II: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Magna_Britannia%3B_being_a_Concise_Topographical_Account_of_the_Several_Counties_of_Great_Britain%2C_Vol._VI-_containing_Devonshire%2C_Part_II_%28IA_dli.granth.75056%29.pdf — The historical county account records the manor of Diptford and Ashwell together in Diptford parish, including the statement that Tristram Sture died seised of the manors of Diptford and Ashwell in 1616.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable source located that defines the historical territorial boundary of Ashwell Manor; no polygon is returned.
- The representative point is based on the surviving named Ashwell farmhouse/site at SX 76377 55383, not on a documented medieval manor-house identification.
- Do not substitute the modern Diptford civil-parish boundary or the full parish area for the manor extent.