ASTWICK MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry location, associated place, authority reference, TNA/MDR record F242924, and the associated Hertfordshire court records identify the Hatfield, Hertfordshire manor, distinct from other manors named Astwick elsewhere in England. Historic England independently identifies the surviving manor house at Coopers Green Lane, Hatfield, and the Hertfordshire HER records the associated medieval manorial and moated site.
Representative point: 51.77549, -0.25621
Basis: documented_manor_house — Historic England lists Astwick Manor, Coopers Green Lane, Hatfield, at National Grid Reference TL 20418 09970. The coordinate is the WGS84 position of the documented manor-house site.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available web evidence confirms the manor house and manorial site but does not provide a sufficiently clear, source-backed map or explicit perimeter for the historical manorial landholding. The court rolls and court books demonstrate continuing manorial jurisdiction but do not, from the accessible catalogue descriptions, establish the territorial boundary. The modern parish, settlement, estate, or listed-building curtilage must not be substituted for the historical manor extent.
Sources:
- Astwick Manor (British Aerospace Technical School), Hatfield — Historic England NHLE entry 1101043: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1101043 — Identifies the manor house in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, gives the statutory address and National Grid Reference TL 20418 09970, and describes the surviving late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century manor house.
- Manor and moated site, Astwick Manor, Hatfield — Hertfordshire Historic Environment Record MHT2006: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1008&uid=MHT2006 — Identifies the medieval manor and moated site at Astwick Manor, Hatfield, gives grid reference TL 203 098, and records the site's manorial history and ownership sequence.
- Astwick Manor House, Coopers Green Lane, Hatfield — Hertfordshire Historic Environment Record MHT11885: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1008&uid=MHT11885 — Provides a separate HER record for the manor house at the documented Hatfield location.
- TNA/MDR record F242924 — Astwick Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F242924 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor, with authority/reference GB/NNAF/M213814 and location Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
- Astwick Manor court book, 1627–1669, Hertfordshire Archives reference XI/5: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14274962 — Existing manorial-record lead confirming surviving court material for the Hatfield manor; the accessible catalogue description does not define a territorial perimeter.
- Astwick Manor court rolls and court book, 1710–1915, Hertfordshire Archives references 10773–10798: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14270892 — Existing manorial-record leads confirming continued court jurisdiction for Astwick Manor; the catalogue descriptions do not supply a mapped manor boundary.
- The Astwick Manor estate in 1819 — Hatfield Local History Society Newsletter 69: https://www.hatfieldhistory.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Newsletter-69.pdf — Records the purchase of the Astwick Manor estate by John Lloyd in 1819 and confirms the estate's continuity as a local landed property, but does not provide a sufficiently legible or explicit perimeter for polygon reconstruction.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the documented manor house and manorial site, not for asserting the full historical extent of the manor.
- No historical manor-boundary polygon has been returned because the accessible evidence does not establish the perimeter without speculation.
- Do not use the modern Hatfield parish, civil parish, postcode, listed-building curtilage, or present residential-estate boundary as the manor boundary.