AUSTWICK MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record F244411 is explicitly for Austwick Manor in Clapham, Yorkshire. The associated archival records repeatedly identify the Manor of Austwick in the County of York, including court rolls, rentals, customs, boundary surveys and perambulations. The evidence distinguishes this manor from the separate manors of Clapham, Newby and Lawkland.
Representative point: 54.1152, -2.3547
Basis: documented_manor_house — Austwick Hall is the documented historic manor house at Austwick, listed by Historic England as a Grade II building with National Grid Reference SD 76911 68870. Local historical material identifies Austwick Hall as the historic seat associated with the manor.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: At least 1719-1782, with further boundary evidence from 1813-1848
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The archival leads establish that the manor had surveyed and perambulated boundaries: a 1719 survey of boundaries, perambulations in 1685, 1719, 1750 and 1782, legal papers and boundary surveys concerning Austwick and Newby in 1747-1848, and an 1813 objection concerning the boundaries of the manor of Clapham by the lords and tenants of Newby and Austwick. A 1847 Austwick and Lawkland tithe map is reported to show manorial boundaries. However, no source located during this research supplied a georeferenced polygon or sufficient explicit boundary points to reconstruct the historical manorial perimeter safely. The modern civil parish or township boundary has therefore not been substituted.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Austwick Manor, record F244411: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244411 — Registry record identifying the exact manor as Austwick Manor in the Clapham, Yorkshire context.
- Historic England listing: Austwick Hall: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101317100-austwick-hall-austwick — Documents Austwick Hall as a historic listed house and supplies coordinates 54.1152, -2.3547 and OS grid reference SD769688.
- Early History of Austwick: https://d1biszitk051fy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2-EARLY-HISTORY.pdf — Discusses the Manor of Austwick, its ownership history, and the distinction between the lordship and the manor house and demesne land.
- Austwick Manorial Records 1693-1783: https://d1biszitk051fy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/AustwickCourtBaron1693-1783.pdf — Provides primary evidence for the functioning of the Manor of Austwick, its court jurisdiction, customary tenures and land parcels in the surrounding locality.
- 1719 survey of boundaries, Farrer 209: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14293785 — Archive catalogue record for a specific 1719 survey of Austwick Manor boundaries.
- Perambulation as ridden with Selside, 1719: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14253951 — Archive catalogue record for a contemporaneous boundary perambulation involving Austwick Manor.
- 1747-1848 legal papers and boundary surveys with Newby: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14366942 — Archive catalogue record for legal papers, enclosure agreements and boundary surveys relating to the rights and boundaries of Austwick Manor.
- 1813 objection concerning the boundaries of Clapham, Newby and Austwick: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14269042 — Archive catalogue record demonstrating that the Austwick manorial boundary was historically distinct and subject to boundary dispute.
- Boundary stones around Clapham: https://www.yorkshiremilestones.co.uk/2020/09/08/boundary-stones-in-and-around-clapham/ — Reports that the 1847 Austwick and Lawkland tithe map showed manorial boundaries, while distinguishing the historic townships and manors from the wider Clapham parish.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor house and historical manorial centre, but it does not represent the full territorial extent of the manor.
- No defensible historical manor polygon was recovered. The modern Austwick civil parish, historical township, or wider Clapham parish must not be injected as the manor boundary.
- The evidence indicates that the manor house and demesne were historically distinct from the wider lordship, so the point should not be interpreted as the centre of all manorial land.