ASTHALL LEIGH MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name refers to the Asthall manor associated historically with Asthall Leigh, also recorded as Astall Leigh or Astallingleye. The archival leads are consistent with this manor: Queen's College records include terriers and a 1771 map/valuation for Asthall, while a 1618 lease explicitly describes Astall Leigh as the capital messuage at Asthall. The documented surviving manor house is Asthall Manor House beside Asthall church, not a separate manor located in another county or parish.
Representative point: 51.800443, -1.585754
Basis: documented_manor_house — Asthall Manor House, the early seventeenth-century manor house built for Sir William Jones circa 1620, at National Grid Reference SP 28673 11382.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The catalogue records demonstrate that terriers, surveys, valuations and a map existed for the manor, especially the 1673 survey and 1771 map, but the accessible catalogue descriptions do not reproduce their parcel schedules or perimeter. Available historical descriptions identify Asthall manor and its manorial centre but do not provide sufficient documented geographic boundary evidence to reconstruct the manorial land extent. The modern Asthall civil-parish boundary has therefore not been substituted.
Sources:
- Asthall Manor House, Asthall - National Heritage List for England entry 1367680: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1367680 — Official entry identifies Asthall Manor House in Asthall parish, gives NGR SP 28673 11382, and states that it was built for Sir William Jones circa 1620.
- TNA/MDR record F285612: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F285612 — Registry record for the supplied manor identity, titled Asthall Leigh Manor and located at Asthall, Oxfordshire.
- Lease, 1618, Astall Leigh capital messuage (Asthall): https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/464522 — Archival description links Astall Leigh directly with the capital messuage at Asthall and identifies Queen's College as the first party.
- Asthall Leigh Memorial Hall: The Villages: https://www.asthallleigh.co.uk/villages/ — Local historical summary identifies Asthall Leigh as the historic hamlet associated with Asthall and distinguishes the hamlet from Asthall village and Asthall Manor.
- Queen's College archival terrier and map catalogue record, QCA 4D40-42: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17052317 — Catalogue entry records the 1771 Asthall map with terrier, valuation and related papers, supporting the existence of potentially relevant manorial mapping but not supplying an accessible boundary polygon.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is the documented manor-house location, not the centre of all historical manorial lands.
- No defensible historical manor-land polygon was found in the accessible online evidence.
- Asthall Leigh is a historical settlement name associated with the Asthall manor context; it should not be confused with the modern civil-parish boundary or treated as the full manorial extent.