ASTBURY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record identifies ASTBURY MANOR at Newbold Astbury, Cheshire, with the historical form Newbold Astbury. Local historical evidence treats Astbury and Newbold as the related medieval manorial centre, and identifies the former Newbold/Astbury manor-house site at Peel Farm east of Astbury village. The supplied court-roll and perambulation references are consistent with this Cheshire manor.
Representative point: 53.14805, -2.21899
Basis: documented_manor_site — Approximate WGS84 position of Peel Farm, the site identified in local historical material as the location of the original Newbold Astbury moated manor house. Cheshire East Council documentation independently places Peel Farm around OS grid reference SJ 8547 6129.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence located confirms the manor-house/manorial-centre site but does not provide a sufficiently clear historical perimeter for Astbury Manor. The 1704 perambulation is catalogued at Cheshire Archives, but its boundary details were not available in the accessible record. The modern Newbold Astbury parish or township boundary cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Astbury Manor, TNA/MDR record F286811: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F286811 — Registry record for Astbury Manor associated with Newbold Astbury, Cheshire; authority/reference GB/NNAF/M312853.
- Astbury in Domesday Book: https://www.roffe.co.uk/astbury.htm — Discusses the relationship between Newbold and Astbury, identifies Newbold as a major medieval manorial centre, and explains that the later manor of Astbury was distinct but associated with the Newbold estate.
- Astbury + Moreton Neighbourhood Plan: https://astbury-parish.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/nplan/reg15docs/AMNP-Policies-v111-PUBLIC-VIEW.pdf — States that the original Newbold Astbury moated manor house, probably of Saxon origin, was at the site of present-day Peel Farm.
- Peel Farm Map, Newbold Astbury: https://mapcarta.com/W1173874138 — Provides the approximate geographic position of Peel Farm at 53.14805, -2.21899.
- Cheshire East Council Public Rights of Way Committee report: Footpath No. 20, Newbold Astbury: https://moderngov.cheshireeast.gov.uk/ecMinutes/documents/g3737/Public%20reports%20pack%2012th-Dec-2011%2014.00%20Public%20Rights%20of%20Way%20Committee.pdf?T=10 — Identifies Peel Farm and Peel House in Newbold Astbury and gives nearby OS grid references, including SJ 8547 6129.
- Cheshire Archives: 1704 Astbury manor perambulation, DEO 211/8: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17258549 — Catalogued historical perambulation record potentially relevant to the manor boundary; accessible catalogue information does not expose enough boundary detail to reconstruct a polygon.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is for the documented former manor-house site at Peel Farm, not the centre of the modern parish.
- No historically defensible manor boundary polygon was located.
- Do not substitute the modern Newbold Astbury parish, township, or civil-parish boundary for the historical manorial extent.