ATCHAM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's Atcham/Attingham identification is confirmed by historical sources stating that the manor of Attingham, otherwise called Atcham, was held by Lilleshall Abbey and later conveyed to the Hill family. The supplied court-roll and account references also document the continuing manor court and bailiff administration of Atcham from the fourteenth through nineteenth centuries.
Representative point: 52.68483, -2.66728
Basis: documented_estate_centre — Attingham Hall/Tern Hall estate centre, on the west bank of the River Tern at Attingham Park. Historic England records that the manor of Attingham or Atcham was purchased in 1700 and that Tern Hall was built on the property; the later Attingham mansion occupies the same principal estate-centre location.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence establishes the manor's principal location and identifies components of its historical holding, but does not provide a sufficiently explicit, georeferenced perimeter for the manorial land. A 1693-94 recovery describes the manor as including 20 messuages, three water mills, gardens, 200 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 20 acres of furze and a fishery in the River Severn. A later sixteenth-century partition and related records associate manor lands and tithes with Atcham, Berwick, Emstrey, Home, Cronkhill and Chilton. These textual descriptions are not enough to reconstruct a reliable polygon without the underlying estate/manor maps or parcel schedules.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Atcham Manor, F245731: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F245731 — Registry record for the exact manor identified as Atcham Manor in Atcham, Shropshire.
- Atcham parish history and manor history: https://www.melocki.org.uk/salop/Atcham.html — States that Lilleshall Abbey held Atcham until the Dissolution; identifies the manor of Attingham otherwise called Atcham; records associated lands and tithes in Atcham, Berwick, Emstrey, Home, Cronkhill and Chilton; and quotes the 1693-94 recovery's acreage, messuage, mill and fishery description.
- Attingham Park, Wroxeter and Uppington: Historic England NHLE 1001114: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001114?section=overview — Identifies the manor of Attingham or Atcham and records the 1700 purchase and construction of Tern Hall on the manor property.
- The history of Attingham, National Trust: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/shropshire-staffordshire/attingham-park/history-of-attingham — Confirms that Rowland Hill acquired the manor of Atcham and that the later Attingham mansion developed from Tern Hall at the principal estate centre.
- Map of Attingham Hall, deer park and estate, circa 1881, National Trust Collections: https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/608046 — Confirms the existence of a mapped Attingham Hall, deer park and estate spanning parts of Upton Magna, Atcham and Wroxeter parishes, but the catalogue record alone does not supply a sufficiently recoverable manorial boundary polygon.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The historical manor should not be equated automatically with the modern Atcham civil parish or with the later Attingham country-house estate.
- The circa-1881 Attingham estate map is evidence of the later estate, not necessarily the full medieval or early-modern manorial extent.
- The returned point is suitable for locating the manor's documented principal estate centre; no historical boundary polygon is injected.