ASSELBY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The record's primary name and Howden location correspond to the historical manor of Asselby in the Howden ecclesiastical liberty, East Riding of Yorkshire. Historical accounts identify Asselby as a distinct manor or reputed manor, originally associated with the Bishop of Durham's manor of Howden and later with the prebendary of Barmby. The associated Howden Liberty estreat-roll references are consistent with this identification.
Representative point: 53.7439, -0.9142
Basis: documented_manor_house — Asselby Hall formerly stood on the site of the house of J. W. Shaw in Asselby. The available sources do not provide a separate coordinate for that house, so the point uses the documented Asselby village centre as a close, low-precision proxy for the historical manor-house site.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern, with later manorial continuity recorded in the nineteenth century
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence establishes the manor's location within Asselby township but does not provide a sufficiently explicit historical perimeter. The 1892 description gives Asselby township as 925 acres of land and 25 acres of water, while also stating that the reputed manor comprised the greater part of the land and tithes; this cannot safely be converted into a manor boundary. Domesday and later descriptions also distinguish Asselby from the wider Bishop of Durham's manor of Howden, but do not define a mapped perimeter for Asselby Manor.
Sources:
- The National Archives: ASSELBY MANOR, TNA/MDR record F236860: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F236860 — Registry record identifying the manor as Asselby Manor in the Howden, Yorkshire context.
- Victoria County History: Yorkshire, East Riding, Volume 10, Part 1: Howdenshire: the Townships: https://calmview.eastriding.gov.uk/Record.aspx?id=zLS324&src=CalmView.Catalog — Authoritative county-history catalogue confirming a dedicated historical chapter on Asselby covering manors, landownership, maps, enclosure, settlement and related topics.
- Asselby, Goole-on-the-Web transcription of the 1892 local history account: https://www.goole-on-the-web.org.uk/vol3/asselby.html — States that Asselby was a township of 925 acres of land and 25 acres of water; identifies T. S. Clarke of Knedlington Manor as lord of the manor; describes the reputed manor, most of the land and the tithes; and records that Asselby Hall formerly stood on the site of J. W. Shaw's house.
- Written Scheme of Investigation, Land North of Street View, Main Street, Asselby: https://docs.planning.org.uk/20211008/116/R0GG8YBJI8V00/s2l9m5qqqeljifi9.pdf — East Riding Historic Environment Record material describes Asselby as a member of the Bishop of Durham's manor of Howden, records the Domesday manorial holdings, and gives the historic-core location at NGR SE 71529 28176.
- Asselby History, Asselby Parish Council: https://asselbyparishcouncil.eastriding.gov.uk/asselby-history.aspx — Local historical account identifies Thomas Clarke of Knedlington as lord of the manor and confirms the long-standing manorial association of Asselby.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable source located supplies a mapped polygon or explicit metes-and-bounds description for Asselby Manor.
- The Asselby township area is not interchangeable with the manor's historical extent; the nineteenth-century account says the reputed manor comprised the greater part, but not necessarily all, of the township.
- The representative coordinate is suitable for locating the manor record geographically but should not be treated as the precise surviving location of Asselby Hall without a detailed historic map or estate plan.