ASHWELL MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The record is specifically identified with Ashwell in Rutland. The Victoria County History for Rutland documents the medieval and post-medieval Manor of Ashwell, including its succession from the Tuchet family to the Palmes, Burton and Dawnay families. The supplied Dawnay court-roll references are consistent with this manor and its later ownership history.
Representative point: 52.7167, -0.7185
Basis: documented_manor_site — The Historic England record for the scheduled monument at Old Hall identifies the earthwork remains of the medieval settlement, watermill, millponds and gardens associated with the medieval manor house. The published approximate coordinates are centred on the documented manorial site at SK866139.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available sources establish the location of the medieval manor house and associated settlement at Old Hall, but do not provide a sufficiently explicit, source-defined perimeter for the historical manorial land. The 1912 Ashwell Estate sale plan maps an estate and its lots, but an estate boundary cannot safely be treated as the medieval or legal manor boundary.
Sources:
- The Victoria History of the County of Rutland, Volume II: Parishes: Ashwell: https://www.langhaminrutland.org.uk/pdf/VCH2.pdf — Provides the documented history of the Manor of Ashwell, its lords and ownership succession, and records medieval manorial features including a dovecote, windmill and fishpond.
- Ashwell medieval settlement remains, watermill and gardens at Old Hall, Historic England Research Records: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=19191&uid=d96e9e5e-cfe2-4fb1-a0b0-3e3d73b04444 — Identifies the earthwork remains of the medieval settlement and the watermill, millponds and gardens associated with the medieval manor house; grid reference SK8647013830.
- Ashwell medieval settlement remains, watermill and gardens at Old Hall, Scheduled Monument: https://ancientmonuments.uk/115421-ashwell-medieval-settlement-remains-watermill-and-gardens-at-old-hall-ashwell — Publishes the scheduled-monument location at approximately 52.7167, -0.7185 and describes the remains as associated with the medieval manor house.
- Ashwell Conservation Area Appraisal, Rutland County Council: https://www.rutland.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-10/Ashwell%20Conservation%20Area%20Appraisal.pdf — Confirms that the medieval settlement, watermill, ponds and gardens associated with the manor house lie north of St Mary's Church and adjacent to Ashwell Old Hall; also describes the later Ashwell estate and Ashwell Manor House.
- A plan of the Ashwell Estate in the parish of Ashwell, Rutlandshire, Historic England Archive, SC00855/33A: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/SC00855/33A — Confirms the existence of a mapped Ashwell Estate with multiple farms and properties in 1912, but is not used as the manor boundary because an estate boundary is not necessarily the historical manorial extent.
- TNA/MDR record F284770: Ashwell Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F284770 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identity, located at Ashwell, Rutland, authority/reference GB/NNAF/M308800.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable source located provides a complete, explicit polygon for the historical territorial extent of Ashwell Manor.
- The documented medieval manor site at Old Hall should not be confused with the later Ashwell Hall estate or the modern civil-parish boundary.
- The representative point is centred on the documented medieval manorial site, not on the modern settlement centroid.