AUSTERFIELD MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record is securely identified with the historical manor of Austerfield in Yorkshire. The National Archives record leads identify rentals, surveys and court records for Austerfield, including the 1608-1609 Crown survey and later Austerfield court rolls. Independent historical evidence treats Austerfield as a distinct manor associated with Bawtry, while Historic England identifies a surviving building in Austerfield as The Manor House.
Representative point: 53.447389, -1.005105
Basis: documented_manor_house — The Manor House, High Street, Austerfield, identified by Historic England as a late-16th/early-17th-century manor house and associated with the manor record. Historic England gives National Grid Reference SK 66174 94974; the WGS84 coordinate is approximately 53.447389, -1.005105.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available web evidence establishes the manor's location and historical associations but does not provide a sufficiently clear, source-backed perimeter for the manorial land. Austerfield's recorded township area, approximately 2,781 acres in the nineteenth century, cannot safely be substituted for the historical manor extent. Medieval and early-modern sources describe Austerfield and Bawtry as related but distinct manors, and the available references to the 1608 survey and 1767 map do not expose enough mapped parcel or boundary detail to reconstruct a defensible polygon.
Sources:
- The Manor House, Austerfield - Historic England List Entry 1151574: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1151574 — Identifies The Manor House in Austerfield, gives National Grid Reference SK 66174 94974, and describes the surviving late-C16/early-C17 building as a manor house.
- The National Archives: Austerfield Manor record F243356: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F243356 — Registry authority record for the exact manor, with associated place Austerfield, Yorkshire.
- The National Archives: survey of Austerfield/Bawtry manors, LR 2/229: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14289512 — The supplied 1608-1609 survey reference is a direct archival lead for the Crown manor and its tenants, but the publicly accessible catalogue page does not expose a boundary map or complete territorial description.
- The National Archives: rental with Bawtry, SC 12/13/68: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14333447 — The supplied 1509-1547 rental reference confirms the historical documentary association of Austerfield with Bawtry.
- Manorial Court Records - Sheffield City Archives: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries-archives/access-archives-local-studies-library/collections/manorial-court-records — Confirms that Sheffield City Archives holds surviving manorial records for Austerfield, including court material useful for further boundary research.
- The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Blyth, chapter on Bawtry and Austerfield: https://www.nottshistory.org.uk/books/blyth1860/chapter10p1.htm — Historical account describing Austerfield and Bawtry as manors with shared ownership history, while treating them as distinct manorial units.
- Fine Rolls of Henry III, 27 Henry III: https://frh3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_040.html — Medieval royal record explicitly refers to the manors of Bawtry and Austerfield, supporting their distinct historical identities.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No defensible historical manor boundary polygon was found in the accessible sources.
- The nineteenth-century area of Austerfield township should not be treated as the manor's territorial extent without direct evidence linking every part of the township to the manor.
- The surviving Manor House is a strong representative location, but the building's identification does not by itself define the extent of the manorial land.