ASTON NEAR BIRMINGHAM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry identity is securely matched to the Aston manor in Aston near Birmingham, Warwickshire. The National Archives record is specifically titled for this manor and its associated court rolls and accounts run from the late medieval period through the nineteenth century. The 1758 estate map is explicitly titled “Aston Manor in the county of Warwick belonging to Sir Lister Holte Bart.”
Representative point: 52.506495, -1.8845164
Basis: documented_manor_house — Aston Hall, Trinity Road, Aston, is the documented principal house of the Holte Aston estate. Historic England states that the Holtes were lords of Aston, that Thomas Holte inherited Aston, and that Aston Hall was built as the principal house on the Aston estate between 1618 and 1635. The coordinate corresponds to Aston Hall at OS National Grid Reference SP 07959 89791.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established from the available evidence
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The surviving evidence confirms the manor's location and identifies a 1758 estate map with apparently fairly complete tenement boundaries, but the accessible catalogue and map scan do not provide a reliable, georeferenced perimeter of the whole manorial land. The 327-acre Aston Park described for 1758 is only part of the wider Aston estate/manor and must not be substituted for the manor boundary. Likewise, the later 960-acre Aston Manor civil-government area is an administrative boundary, not demonstrably the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Aston near Birmingham Manor, record F241628: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241628 — Registry record identifying the exact manor name and authority reference GB/NNAF/M229079.
- Catalogue of British Town Maps: Warwickshire-Aston-1758: https://townmaps.history.ac.uk/townmap/warwickshire-aston-1758/ — Catalogues the 1758 manuscript estate map titled “Aston Manor in the county of Warwick belonging to Sir Lister Holte Bart.” at Birmingham Central Library, reference BLML Maps 1.d.15; records a scale of 1:6336 and apparently fairly complete tenement boundaries.
- Aston Hall, Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens, list entry 1001199: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001199 — Identifies Aston Hall as the principal building on the Aston estate, records the Holtes as lords of Aston, gives the hall's National Grid Reference as SP 07959 89791, and describes the historical Aston Park and estate context.
- Aston Hall, Birmingham City Council: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/directory_record/3584/aston_hall — Confirms the modern location of Aston Hall at Trinity Road, Birmingham B6 6JD.
- Aston local history, Birmingham City Council: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50170/local_history/1644/aston_local_history — Provides historical context distinguishing the ancient parish of Aston from the later Aston Manor local-government area, supporting the warning against using the modern administrative boundary as the medieval or early-modern manor extent.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is defensible for the manor's principal post-medieval manorial centre, Aston Hall, but the medieval lords of Aston lived at Duddeston until the later sixteenth century.
- No historically grounded whole-manor polygon is returned. The 1758 map is important evidence, but the accessible material does not expose enough boundary geometry to reconstruct its perimeter safely.
- Do not substitute Aston parish, the later Aston Manor civil parish/local-government area, Aston Park, the conservation area, or the modern Birmingham boundary for the historical manorial extent.