ASTHALL MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry location and associated place are Asthall, Oxfordshire, and the historical evidence identifies Asthall Manor House at Asthall as the surviving manorial residence. The supplied court rolls, terriers, rentals, maps and perambulations are consistent with the Asthall/Freeman-Mitford manor record and do not indicate a different same-named manor.
Representative point: 51.8004, -1.5856
Basis: documented_manor_house — Asthall Manor House, the documented historic manor house at OS National Grid reference SP2867311382 (approximately SP286113), Asthall, Oxfordshire.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor house and indicates surviving historical map, rental, terrier, court-book and perambulation material, including an 1812 map with other manors and 1819–1849 perambulations with Swinford. However, the accessible catalogue descriptions do not provide the mapped perimeter, parcel schedule, or sufficiently explicit boundary landmarks needed to reconstruct the historical manorial extent. The modern civil-parish boundary and the present Asthall Manor estate must not be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record: Asthall Manor House, HER 3275 / Listed Building 1367680: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1033&uid=MOX7127 — Documents Asthall Manor House at SP2867311382, identifies it as a manor house, and records its construction for Sir William Jones circa 1620.
- Asthall Manor: About and history: https://www.asthallmanor.com/about/ — Identifies the surviving house as Asthall Manor, probably occupying a medieval manorial site, and gives its Asthall, Oxfordshire location.
- Victoria County History: Asthall, Oxfordshire, Volume 15, pages 48–55: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol15/pp48-55 — Referenced as the more extensive scholarly history of Asthall and its manors; supports the identification and historical continuity of the manor, but the page was not accessible for extracting a boundary polygon.
- The National Archives Discovery: F285611: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F285611 — Registry authority record supplied for the exact Asthall Manor record.
- Gloucestershire Archives / National Archives Discovery: D1447/3/15, map with other manors, 1812: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17052714 — Historical map lead supplied for the Asthall manor estate; catalogue metadata confirms a map exists but does not expose its boundary geometry.
- Gloucestershire Archives / National Archives Discovery: D1447/5/29, map with other manors, 1815–1816: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17052749 — Additional historical map lead supplied for the manor group; catalogue metadata does not expose enough geographic detail to reconstruct the Asthall manor perimeter.
- Gloucestershire Archives / National Archives Discovery: D1447/10/14, court book with perambulation, 1819–1849: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17052766 — Perambulation record with Swinford, potentially relevant to the historical boundary, but the catalogue entry does not provide the route or boundary landmarks.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is for the documented manor house, not the centroid of the historical manor lands.
- No defensible historical manorial polygon was found in the accessible evidence.
- Asthall civil-parish, modern estate, postcode and administrative boundaries were not used as substitutes for the manor boundary.
- The 1812 and 1815–1816 maps and 1819–1849 perambulation records should be consulted at Oxfordshire History Centre or Gloucestershire Archives for a possible future boundary reconstruction.