ASKHAM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The TNA Manorial Documents Register record F244274 is explicitly for Askham Manor in Askham, Nottinghamshire. The associated court books dated 1615–1629 and 1657–1938 are catalogued as records of the manor of Askham held by Nottinghamshire Archives. Historical evidence identifies Askham as an archiepiscopal manor, initially an outlier of Laneham and documented as an Archbishop of York manor by 1275.
Representative point: 53.26608, -0.89243
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Manor Farm, situated immediately near St Nicholas’s Church in the historic village core, is the strongest surviving mapped indicator of the former manorial or estate centre. The site is associated with substantial listed agricultural buildings and lies within the area historically occupied by Askham Manor.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor’s identity and location but do not provide a sufficiently clear, manor-specific historic boundary. Askham parish included the hamlet of Rockley and extended westward to the River Idle, but the available evidence does not prove that the manor’s territorial extent exactly matched the parish. The parish boundary, modern civil boundary, or a generalized village envelope has therefore not been substituted for a documented manorial boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register: Askham Manor, F244274: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244274 — Authoritative registry record identifying the exact manor record as Askham Manor in Askham, Nottinghamshire.
- Nottinghamshire Archives court book, 1615–1629, DD/SP/1/1: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14354552 — Catalogued court book belonging to the Askham manor record group.
- Nottinghamshire Archives court books, 1657–1938, DD/1/2-12: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14316070 — Series of Askham manor court books, confirming the continuing institutional identity of the manor.
- Askham: History, St Nicholas Church, Southwell Churches: https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/askham/hhistory.php — States that Askham was an outlier of Laneham in Domesday context and that the Archbishop had a manor in Askham by 1275.
- Askham, Nottinghamshire, GENUKI transcription of White’s Directory, 1853: https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/Askham — Reports that the Archbishop of York was lord of the manor, that the manor was partly copyhold and partly leasehold, and describes the parish as extending westward to the River Idle and including Rockley.
- Manor Farm Map, Askham, Mapcarta: https://mapcarta.com/W442136151 — Provides the mapped position of Manor Farm at 53.26608, -0.89243 and places it near St Nicholas’s Church and the historic village centre.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is an evidence-led manorial-centre proxy rather than a confirmed surviving manor-house coordinate.
- No reliable manor-specific boundary map, survey, or parcel reconstruction was located in the available sources; no territorial polygon is returned.
- Askham’s association with the larger Laneham archiepiscopal estate does not by itself establish that the Askham manor included all Laneham outliers or that its boundary matched the later parish.