ASTON CLINTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry location and associated place identify Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire, and the National Archives leads concern medieval-to-modern rentals, court rolls, accounts and an extent for the same Aston Clinton manor. Historical sources identify the manor successively with the moated manor house near St Michael and All Angels church, later known as Church Farm, and with the later Aston Clinton House manor residence to the south-east.
Representative point: 51.79500, -0.71611
Basis: documented_manor_house — Site of Aston Clinton House, the later manor house of Aston Clinton, recorded at OS grid reference SP 88400 11400. The historical manor house formerly stood immediately south of St Michael and All Angels church as Church Farm, before the principal residence shifted approximately half a mile south-east to the later Aston Clinton House.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established from the available evidence
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources confirm the manor's location and describe a later estate of approximately 900 acres, including Home Farm, Church Farm and Hill Farm, with an enclosure map and sale-plan evidence. However, no accessible source examined here supplies a sufficiently clear, manor-specific perimeter for the historical manorial land. The Aston Clinton parish boundary, later Rothschild estate boundary, Aston Clinton Park boundary and 1814 enclosure-map area cannot safely be substituted for the medieval or post-medieval manor extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Aston Clinton Manor, TNA/MDR record F241839: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241839 — Registry record for Aston Clinton Manor under authority/reference GB/NNAF/M204916.
- Buckinghamshire's Heritage Portal: Aston Clinton Park and House, monument record MBC21785: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MBC21785 — Identifies the Aston Clinton House site and gives centred OS grid reference SP 8824 1136; records the former manor-house landscape, earlier boundaries and the 1814 pre-enclosure map.
- Buckinghamshire's Heritage Portal: Aston Clinton Park, monument record MBC677: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MBC677 — Describes the ancient manor of the Lords Lake as Aston Clinton House, records its moat and gives point grid reference SP 88400 11400, corresponding to the representative coordinate.
- Rothschild Archive: Aston Clinton House, Buckinghamshire: https://www1.rothschildarchive.org/materials/ar2003_aston_clinton.pdf — States that the 1848 sale estate consisted of the Manor of Aston Clinton and approximately 900 acres, including Home Farm, Church Farm and Hill Farm; identifies Church Farm as the old manor house.
- Rothschild Archive Annual Review: Aston Clinton House, Buckinghamshire: https://www.rothschildarchive.org/materials/ar_2002_2003_complete_with_cover.pdf — Explains that the earlier moated manor house stood next to St Michael and All Angels church and later became Church Farm, while a larger manor house was built about half a mile south-east near the future Grand Junction Canal.
- Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal: Aston Clinton historical overview: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/theme/tbc347 — Confirms the historical manor of Aston Clinton, its ownership history, the separate status of Vatches, and the survival of a medieval moat south of the church.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor had more than one principal residence over time: the earlier moated site beside the church, later Church Farm, and the subsequent Aston Clinton House site.
- The representative coordinate marks the later documented manor-house site at Aston Clinton House rather than the earlier Church Farm site.
- No historically defensible polygon for the complete manorial territory was established; boundary injection is therefore unsafe.