ASTON BOTTERELL MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The exact registry name and location match the historic manor of Aston Botterell in Shropshire. The documented manorial residence is Aston Manor, formerly listed as Manor House, whose medieval fabric and association with the Botterell family identify it as the manor house of Aston Botterell. The adjacent medieval ringwork is recorded as an earlier probable manorial residence.
Representative point: 52.4541, -2.5428
Basis: documented_manor_house — Aston Manor, Aston Botterell, formerly Manor House, is a documented 13th-century manor house at OS Grid Reference SO63218415 / NGR SO6321284153.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: 1438, with later evidence not sufficient to define a perimeter
Boundary confidence: medium
Boundary basis: The 1438 inquisition records Aston Botterell as a manor comprising the manorial site, 10 messuages, 2 cottages, 300 acres of arable, 20 acres of meadow, 12 acres of wood, and 1 acre of moor, together with assize rent and a twice-yearly court baron. This establishes a substantial manorial extent of approximately 333 acres of named land categories, but supplies no mapped perimeter or sufficiently specific boundary landmarks. The later parish area of 2,238 acres cannot be substituted for the manor boundary. Accordingly, no historically defensible polygon is returned.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Aston Botterell Manor, TNA/MDR F246545: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F246545 — Registry record identifying the exact manor as ASTON BOTTERELL MANOR in Aston Botterell, Shropshire, authority/reference GB/NNAF/M220414.
- Shropshire Historic Environment Record: Aston Manor, Aston Botterell: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1015&uid=MSA6241 — Records Aston Manor as a 13th-century manor house at SO 6321 8415, with medieval origins and later Botterell-associated remodelling.
- Historic England listing: Aston Manor, Aston Botterell: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1176724 — Identifies Aston Manor, formerly listed as Manor House, as a Grade II* building with a 13th-century core and gives NGR SO6321284153.
- Mapping the Medieval Countryside: E-CIPM 25-146, Joan who was wife of John Botrell: https://inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/25-146/ — The 1438-1439 inquisition explicitly records Aston Botterell as a manor with its manorial site, 10 messuages, 2 cottages, 300 acres of arable, 20 acres of meadow, 12 acres of wood, and 1 acre of moor; TNA reference C 139/90/3.
- Shropshire Historic Environment Record: Ringwork at Aston Botterell: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1015&uid=MSA907 — Records the medieval ringwork approximately 110 metres west of St Michael's Church and 50 metres west of Aston Manor, probably the earlier manorial residence before the 13th-century manor house.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No source located provides a mapped or reconstructable perimeter for the historical manor.
- The 1438 acreage is evidence of manorial landholding extent, not a boundary polygon.
- The modern or historic parish boundary, including the recorded parish area of approximately 2,238 acres, must not be treated as the manor boundary.