ASTON INGHAM

Identity: confirmed — The registry name ASTON INGHAM, the historical forms Aston and Estun Ingan, the Herefordshire location, and the associated Aston Ingham archival rentals, accounts, presentments and court records consistently identify the Aston Ingham manor in south-eastern Herefordshire, not another same-named manor.
Representative point: 51.90974, -2.46130
Basis: settlement_proxy — The medieval manor is documented as being at Aston Ingham, whose historic parish settlement and medieval church form the best defensible surviving geographic centre. No securely identified manor house survives in the consulted evidence. The nearby New House Farm archaeological record is not securely identified as the manor house and should not be used as a precise manor-house point.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Insufficiently established; evidence spans the medieval manor and later manorial administration through the 19th century.
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor's identity and location but do not provide a documented manor boundary, estate map, rental map, survey, or parcel-level reconstruction that can safely distinguish the historical manorial extent from the parish or later administrative boundaries. The recorded 2,378-acre figure for Aston Ingham in the 19th century describes the parish, not demonstrably the manor, and has therefore not been used as a polygon.
Sources:
- The National Archives Discovery: Aston Ingham manor record F279997: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F279997 — Registry record corresponding to the supplied manor ID, authority/reference GB/NNAF/M303205 and primary manor name Aston Ingham.
- Parish History – Aston Ingham Parish Council: https://astoningham-pc.gov.uk/the-parish/parish-history/ — States that Aston was Estune in Domesday, became Estun Ingan around 1242 after acquisition by the Ingayn/Ingan family, and that the family built a manor there; also identifies the medieval parish church and the later lord of the manor.
- Herefordshire Through Time: Aston Ingham field names and landowners: https://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/1092?parish=ASTON+INGHAM — Provides the historic Aston Ingham parish context and surviving field-name/landowner data, but does not supply a manor boundary.
- Herefordshire Through Time: New House Farm, Aston Ingham, SMR 48502: https://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/her-search/monuments-search/search/Monument?ID=48502 — Locates New House Farm at SO 68541 22875 and records it as a historic post-medieval farm. It does not identify the site as the Aston Ingham manor house.
- Aston Ingham, The Gatehouse Record: https://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/3789.html — Reports an archaeological mound and enclosure near New House Farm at approximately 51.90421, -2.45898, while noting uncertainty over interpretation. This supports caution against treating the site as a confirmed manor house.
- Church of St John the Baptist, Aston Ingham: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101099646-church-of-st-john-the-baptist-aston-ingham — Provides the representative settlement-centre coordinates 51.9097, -2.4613 for the historic parish church at Aston Ingham.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is a settlement proxy, not a confirmed manor-house location.
- The archaeological features near New House Farm are of uncertain interpretation and are not sufficient evidence for a manor-house point.
- No historically grounded manor-land polygon was found; do not substitute the modern civil parish boundary or the 19th-century parish area for the manor extent.