ASTON FLAMVILLE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name, historical variant “Aston Flamvile,” Aston Flamville location, National Archives manor record F284910, and the associated 1661–1664 pains and 1705 court-roll references all identify the manor of Aston Flamville in Leicestershire. Historic England separately records the surviving late-sixteenth-century Manor House in Aston Flamville, confirming the manorial centre.
Representative point: 52.53029, -1.32229
Basis: documented_manor_house — The surviving Manor House on Lychgate Lane, Aston Flamville, is a listed late-C16 manor house. Historic England gives National Grid Reference SP 46226 92706; the representative coordinates are taken from the mapped/listed manor-house location.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor house and the historical association of Aston Flamville with the manor, but do not provide a sufficiently clear manor-specific perimeter. Nineteenth-century directories describe Aston Flamville as a township/parish of approximately 1,050 acres and identify the lord of the manor, but that acreage cannot safely be treated as the manorial extent because it may represent the civil or ecclesiastical unit rather than the demesne and customary lands of the manor. No authoritative manor map, rental map, enclosure plan, or parcel schedule defining the manor boundary was located.
Sources:
- The Manor House, Aston Flamville — Historic England National Heritage List entry 1074727: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074727 — Identifies The Manor House, Lychgate Lane, Aston Flamville, as a late-C16 manor house; gives National Grid Reference SP 46226 92706 and confirms its historical architectural identity.
- Aston Flamville Manor — National Archives Discovery record F284910: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F284910 — Registry authority record for Aston Flamville Manor and the supplied exact manor identity.
- Pains, 1661–1664 — Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office, DE1660: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17009553 — Manorial archive reference supplied for Aston Flamville Manor, supporting continuity of the identified manor in the seventeenth century.
- Draft court roll, 1705 — Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office, DE249/11: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17009796 — Manorial court-roll reference supplied for Aston Flamville, supporting the same manor identification in 1705.
- Leicestershire directory entry for Aston Flamville: https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/api/collection/p16445coll4/id/130559/download — Describes Aston Flamville as a parish and small village, gives an approximate area of about 1,050 acres, and identifies the contemporary lord of the manor; useful contextual evidence but not a manor-specific boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is safe to inject as the documented surviving manor-house location.
- No defensible historical manor-land polygon was established; do not substitute the modern civil parish, historical parish, or the approximately 1,050-acre township/parish area as the manor boundary.
- The listed manor house is a surviving manorial centre, but its present curtilage is not equivalent to the historical territorial extent of the manor.