ASTERBY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record identifies Asterby Manor at Asterby, Lincolnshire, with the historical form Aystirby. Independent local history identifies the same Asterby manor as the manor of the parish near Horncastle and records its medieval and later landholding context. The supplied DL 30 court-roll references are consistent with a medieval and early-modern manorial court record for this place.
Representative point: 53.29755, -0.10501
Basis: settlement_proxy — No securely identified surviving manor house or documented manor-house site was found. Local historical evidence states that the manor and greater part of Asterby parish were held together, while the surviving historic settlement centre is represented by St Peter's Church at Asterby. The church/village centre is therefore used as a cautious settlement proxy rather than as a claimed manor-house location.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; later status attested in the nineteenth century
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor's association with Asterby and state that it comprised the manor and greater part of the parish, but no manor-specific estate map, rental map, enclosure plan, tithe plan, or other reliable source was found that defines the historical manorial perimeter. The modern civil-parish boundary is not substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Asterby Manor, F291312: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F291312 — Registry authority record for the exact Asterby Manor entry.
- The National Archives: DL 30/89/1202 court rolls, 1331-1383: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17766747 — Supplied manorial court-roll reference associated with the record.
- The National Archives: DL 30/89/1208, 1211-13, 1216 court rolls, 1390-1408: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17762827 — Supplied medieval court-roll references associated with the record.
- Records, historical and antiquarian, of Parishes Round Horncastle: Asterby: https://readingroo.ms/6/2/5/0/62502/62502-h/62502-h.htm — Local history traces Asterby's medieval landholding history and states that the manor and greater part of the parish were held by trustees of the Trafford family.
- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire, Asterby entry: https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/api/collection/p16445coll4/id/194000/download — Nineteenth-century gazetteer description identifies William Henry Trafford as lord of the manor and principal landowner and gives the parish area.
- St Peter's Church, Asterby, Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI40568 — Authoritative local heritage record for the historic settlement-centre feature used for the cautious representative point.
- St Peter's Church, Asterby, Wikidata coordinate record: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17548419 — Provides the decimal coordinate corresponding to the historic church at Asterby.
- Asterby House, Asterby, Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI93132 — Confirms a surviving historic house in the parish, but dates it to about 1825 and does not identify it as the manor house; therefore it was not used as the manor's representative site.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative coordinate is a settlement proxy, not a verified manor-house location.
- No historically defensible manor boundary polygon was located. Do not inject the modern Asterby civil-parish boundary as the manor boundary.
- Asterby Hall is a later mock-Tudor dwelling and was not treated as the medieval or early-modern manor house without supporting evidence.